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

Perhaps LO Find & Replace using Regular expressions would work.
Not an LO solution but SED can be useful for such tasks.
Can you post a sample of the file contents?

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Robert Funnell <robert.funnell@mcgill.ca>
wrote:

> 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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