Re: [libreoffice-users] styles for plays?

On 2013-06-27 03:13, Fred James wrote:
> Helen wrote:
> > I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of 
> > plays.
> > The plays came to me
> > in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the
> > characters's speaking lines
> >   centered -- the characters's names centered a line above.
> >
> > Some of the writers seem to have centered the names with a centering 
> > code
> > -- I can
> > highlight the name and use the "left margin" code to move the name to 
> > left
> > margin.  Others
> > seem to have centered by spacing over! (yes)  and I have to backspace 
> > until
> > I get the name
> > to the left margin.
> >
> > None used a colon after the speaker, and the publisher wants it.  
> > I've made
> > some progress with
> > Search & Replace --  Search for all incidents of TOM and replace with 
> > TOM
> > colon space. But the
> > most tedious part is moving TOM from center to left and bring his 
> > speaking
> > lines up to begin
> > on the same line.  Is there any way I can put these plays into a style
> > sheet and save this work, or
> > would creating  the style sheet take as long as what I'm doing? I've 
> > never
> > used styles.  And this is a one-time
> > job so if I have to do it all by hand, at least it's only once.
> >
> > Thanks for any advice,
> Helen
> Not sure this is helpful ... Things are so context dependent ... Let 
> me preface my remarks with:
> (1) send a sample file to me (off line, if you like) and I could take 
> a look at it and see what I might be able to do?
> (2) depends on the results of step 1
>
> And so, on to what I have thought of so far ...
>
> First I thought "Macro" (which I don't do anything with, so no help 
> there)
> Second I thought "gawk" ... and I played with that with some degree of 
> success ...
>
> Steps:
> (1) save document as (plain) txt (no encoding)
> (2) in a terminal window, apply this command to the *.txt file ...
>     awk '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/,"")};1' <filename.txt >newfilename.txt
> ... this removes all leading (and trailing) white space, and 
> everything is left justified.  It takes out spaces, tabs, and 
> centering, and the result would look like this ...
> Tom
> said one
> Tom
> said two
> Tom
> said three
> ... and LibreOffice can open and edit the new *.txt file.
>
> That doesn't get the "speaker's" line adjoined or insert the necessary 
> : either, but depending upon context something might be made to do the 
> job?
>
> Regards
> Fred James
>
> PS: credit where credit is due: I found that little one-liner at 
> <http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Hi.
I think you are almost there. You just need to do a substitution if you 
have the actors names.
Substitute "Tom:" for "Tom\n"
I think you can perform substitution or transliteration on a list but 
can't just locate the syntax
Something like /(Tom\n)(Burt\n)(Joan\n)/(Tom:)(Burt:)(Joan:)/
Steve

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