(I know this an old thread, but I just happen to exactly the same feature Idris was asking for)
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:53:47AM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> usage: ruby scriptname.rb < input.tex > output.tex
>
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>
> subs_hash = {
> "Mohamed" => "Muḥammad",
> "Idris" => "ادريس",
> }
>
> while line = STDIN.gets
> subs_hash.each do |key,value|
> line.gsub!(Regexp.new(key), value)
> end
> puts line
> end
Such approach has a major disadvantage, one have to take care of not
altering macros and tex commands or we may end with a broken document (I
have more general use case where the to be substituted strings can
occur in macros as well), and we know that "only TeX can read TeX" :)
I'm thinking in lua callback that get fed with text buffers in a similar
way to OTPs, so one can use regular expressions to pre-process the text
without messing with node list, think in code that replaces 2nd with
2\high{nd} etc. which would be very complex to be done at node list
level.
Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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