Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Removing Index Markers from Writer: a How-To

D'uh!

Thanks Frank.  I've updated the script with that change.

Attachments aren't accepted by this list, are they? What did you mean by 
"post the shell script"?

Peter

Peter West
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On 5/02/2014 1:54 am, CVAlkan wrote:
> Peter:
>
> The actual perl command should be changed slightly to:
> perl -pi'orig_*' -e 's/<text:alphabetical-index-mark
> text:string-value="[[:alpha:]]*"\/>//g' Index_Experiment.fodt
>
> After [[:alpha:]]*" the \/> needs to be added to remove the "/>" ending of
> the XML tag - otherwise it seems to work fine.
>
> The full blown shell script you sent me (I don't see it here on the forum
> for some reason) needs to be modified in the same way of course.
>
> I used [A-Za-z] instead of the [:alpha:] that you used because some systems
> don't respect that substitution syntax (I can't remember what it's called),
> which limits things just a bit, but a comment might be added to take care of
> that - the [:alpha:] syntax, again, is probably a little easier to
> understand for those not familiar with grep, sed and their relatives.
>
> You should post the shell script, as it is probably easier to use (?) for
> some folks than my simple sed command, since it takes care of hand-holding,
> locating the right directories and so forth.
>
> Of course, I hope some of the LibreOffice developers will incorporate the
> option and capability to remove old markers when an index is regenerated,
> and "fix" the generator so that it doesn't add additional markers to the
> same word when updating takes place. (It doesn't always do that, but I
> haven't figured out the exact conditions when it does).
>
> So - good work.
>
>
>
>
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