Re: [libreoffice-users] Bulk Changes

Hello,

In the Find and Replace dialog, you can replace fonts and other
formating. Call for the panel (Edit > Find & Replace, or CTRL-H), and
click in the "Find" text area with no text, and then select Format... .
From there, select the font you want to replace from the Font tab; hit
OK. Then click in the replace text area, and do the same for the
substitute font. Once you have done that, select "Replace All".

I hope this helps.

Rgds,
Rémy.


Le jeudi 10 avril 2025 à 20:59 +0100, Jonathan Allen a écrit :
> Stuart,
>
> > You have been applying Paragraph Styles to the content of the book,
> > right?
> > If so, trivial--just edit the Paragraph style and change the font.
>
> As it happens, no, but that's because the whole manuscript is an
> import from Davkawriter (running in Wine) which doesn't do styles.
>
> However, the book is mainly in English, but with some headings and
> lines in Hebrew.  There are a lot of single words or phrases of
> Hebrew within an otherwise entirely English paragraph.  That's why
> the equivalent of:
>
>    g/FRankRuel/s//SBL Hebrew/
>
> would be so useful.
>
> > If not, you can select the entire document. Remove ALL direct
> > formatting.
> > Then work back through applying some mix of styles to the
> > manuscript.
>
> That would still mean visiting and changing every piece of Hebrew
> text,
> which is what I have been doing.
>
> > Alternatively, you can open the ODF Archive with a Zip program.
> > Then
> > open with an XML or simple text editor to review the Styles.xml and
> > the
> > Content.xml--identify the changes needed.
>
> Yes, I guessed it might come down to that.  Is it safe?  Does the
> Content.xml file have a checksum or something like that stored
> somewhere else to guarantee the integrity of the text?
>
> > trial and error approach to get it reformatted.
>
> A trade-off between doing the conversions by hand, but knowing that
> I have got them all as I go through the pages, and hoping that I
> have understood the XML well enough to catch everything but then
> having to do a detailed check.  Hmmm.
>
> > And then for next book, use styles when starting. Some great
> > documentation
> > for doing so in the Writer guide and the Byfield & Webber
> > "Designing with
> > LibreOffice" book [2], very worth a read. Easier to start off with
> > and
> > curate templates, than to direct format a long document and have to
> > fight
> > with formatting down the road.
>
> Thanks for the tip.  Another four manuscripts to process from this
> source before actually getting to start something new.
>
> Jonathan 


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