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

Am Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 schrieben Sie:
> Does this sound like a workable approach if you were familiar with
> Emacs? If you were able to identify exactly what needs to be removed
> from content.xml, and sent me a fragment of a file to illustrate it, I
> might be able to specify a sequence of commands that you could use.

I posted the tag, which I think is the relevant, before:
> > > > <text:p text:style-name="P2">blabla</text:p>
I assume "P2" refers to printable, suppressing output on paper.
if you have a simple command line
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote:
> > Hi Robert
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Robert Funnell:
> > > 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.)
> >
> > Unfortunately, I am not used to emacs, although I know it is a very
> > powerful editor.
> >
> > Walther
> >
> > > - 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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