Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

Walther -

Could you open your content.xml with Emacs and record a macro to 
find and remove the hidden text? (I'm not sure that qualifies as 
simple.)

- Robert

On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote:

> Hallo,
> Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Bruce Hohl:
> > > Do you have some advice how to remove the hidden (hard-)formatted text in
> >
> > a
> >
> > > simple way?
> >
> > File > Save :: Save as type = Text (.txt) OR Text - Choose Encoding (.txt)
> > Thus, LO can be used to read, create and edit unformatted text files.
>
> Yes, you are right, but it does not solve my problem. The text file will 
> contain the hidden formated text.
>
> To make it very clear:
> I do not care about the format information in the file.
> I do not want the content (the hidden formated characters) in the file before 
> shipping.
>
> Using linux, the command line program xpath might do the job. It is capable of 
> removing certain xml tags in a file like
>
> <text:p text:style-name="P2">blabla</text:p>
>
> Regards
>
> Walther
>
> ...
>
> > > > From: Walther Koehler <walther.koehler@posteo.de>
> > > > Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:54 AM
> > > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt
> > > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dear LO users,
> > > >
> > > > I would like to give away *.odt files without hidden formated text.
> > > > Do you have some advice how to remove the hidden (hard-)formatted text
> > >
> > > in a
> > >
> > > > simple way?
> > > > Is it possible by a macro?
> > > >
> > > > (I am aware that you can make hidden text invisible and print the file
> > > > without
> > > > hidden text on paper. I also know how to remove properties)
> > > >
> > > > Thank you in advance
> > > >
> > > > Walther

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