Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: styles for plays?

Stuart, Fred, Brian, Steve -- thank you for great ideas.  I've learned a lot
of useful things that I'll make notes on here.


Thanks!

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, V Stuart Foote <VStuart.Foote@utsa.edu>wrote:

> Helen,
>
> Interesting issue. The manual centering is simply multiple tabs ,\t, or
> multiple <space> characters.   Replace the multiple occurrences with
> nothing
> to remove it and bring all text to left margin.  Get all the formatting
> removed so you are left with just the text.
>
> The key to your effort is to remove the direct styling from the text, and
> apply document wide styling to paragraphs.   Choose from existing styles,
> or
> create new style sto apply against paragraphs, fonts, pages of each play as
> you'd like.
>
> If you are comfortable extracting the XML text component--content.xml--
> from
> the .odt container you can flush it through the stream editor--sed.  Or
> gawk, or perl, or python, etc. to make editing corrections (removing white
> space and joining actor to their lines with a colon). Then return the
> edited
> content.xml back to the .odt container, and then apply consistent styles
> from LibreOffice.
>
> However, working within Writer--you can accomplish much of the text clean
> up
> using the find-replace GUI widget. Open the + other options panel, and
> select  the regular expression checkbox.
>
> LibreOffice regular expressions are described here:
> https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions
>
> with a bit more detailed instruction here (panels are a bit different
> between LibreOffice and OpenOffice):
>
> http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer
>
> The other approach, would be to open the document and copy all contents out
> to a text file, then edit that with sed, gawk, perl or python--and insert
> the now consistent text into a new LibreOffice document and then apply
> styles to the text.
>
> Stuart
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