Re: [libreoffice-users] styles for plays?
Helen wrote:
I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of plays.
The plays came to me
in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the
characters's speaking lines
centered -- the characters's names centered a line above.
Some of the writers seem to have centered the names with a centering code
-- I can
highlight the name and use the left margin code to move the name to left
margin. Others
seem to have centered by spacing over! (yes) and I have to backspace until
I get the name
to the left margin.
None used a colon after the speaker, and the publisher wants it. I've made
some progress with
Search Replace -- Search for all incidents of TOM and replace with TOM
colon space. But the
most tedious part is moving TOM from center to left and bring his speaking
lines up to begin
on the same line. Is there any way I can put these plays into a style
sheet and save this work, or
would creating the style sheet take as long as what I'm doing? I've never
used styles. And this is a one-time
job so if I have to do it all by hand, at least it's only once.
Thanks for any advice,
Helen
Not sure this is helpful ... Things are so context dependent ... Let me
preface my remarks with:
(1) send a sample file to me (off line, if you like) and I could take a
look at it and see what I might be able to do?
(2) depends on the results of step 1
And so, on to what I have thought of so far ...
First I thought Macro (which I don't do anything with, so no help there)
Second I thought gawk ... and I played with that with some degree of
success ...
Steps:
(1) save document as (plain) txt (no encoding)
(2) in a terminal window, apply this command to the *.txt file ...
awk '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/,)};1' filename.txt newfilename.txt
... this removes all leading (and trailing) white space, and everything
is left justified. It takes out spaces, tabs, and centering, and the
result would look like this ...
Tom
said one
Tom
said two
Tom
said three
... and LibreOffice can open and edit the new *.txt file.
That doesn't get the speaker's line adjoined or insert the necessary :
either, but depending upon context something might be made to do the job?
Regards
Fred James
PS: credit where credit is due: I found that little one-liner at
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
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Re: [libreoffice-users] styles for plays?
At 09:46 26/06/2013 -0400, Helen Etters wrote: I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of plays. The plays came to me in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the characters's speaking lines centered -- the characters's names centered a line above. Some of the writers seem to have centered the names with a centering code -- I can highlight the name and use the left margin code to move the name to left margin. Others seem to have centered by spacing over! (yes) and I have to backspace until I get the name to the left margin. None used a colon after the speaker, and the publisher wants it. I've made some progress with Search Replace -- Search for all incidents of TOM and replace with TOM colon space. But the most tedious part is moving TOM from center to left and bring his speaking lines up to begin on the same line. Is there any way I can put these plays into a style sheet and save this work, or would creating the style sheet take as long as what I'm doing? I've never used styles. And this is a one-time job so if I have to do it all by hand, at least it's only once. In situations like this, it's very often easiest to lose all the existing formatting and insert your own from scratch - rather than trying to tinker with what you have. That's very easy to do: just use Edit | Paste Special... (or right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V) instead of ordinary Paste, selecting Unformatted text from the options in the Paste Special dialogue, when inserting your material. Since you will already have done some work on the text, you can do this from where you currently are by selecting your entire document text, copying it, and pasting it Unformatted either back over the original or else into a new document. (I'd suggest a new document, as you might well want to go back and look at how the original material *was* formatted, in fact.) Then you need to learn a few tricks to tidy things up. You don't need to backspace over a number of spaces. Put the cursor at the start of the line (paragraph, in fact). Press Ctrl+Shift+right arrow. This will select the range of spaces. Now press Delete to remove them. You can also use Find Replace to replace space-space with space. Keep repeating that until there are no more double spaces and you will be close to what you need. (It is seldom useful to have consecutive spaces in any word-processed document.) Better still, use Find Replace to replace ^ + (that's circumflex-space-plus sign) with nothing, having clicked More Options and ticked Regular expressions. This will remove all spaces from the start of any paragraph (which is what your relevant lines will presumably be). Perversely, there appears to be no easy way to merge TOM: with the next paragraph (or if there is, I've managed to forget it): you might be left with doing this manually. Yes, you can create styles to do some of this, but you would still have to apply the styles to the relevant parts of the text. They would be more useful if, say, you wanted character names to be a different font, size, or style - or perhaps all of these - from the surrounding text. Using a character style to set these would be a benefit in various ways: it would be quicker, it would be more reliable at ensuring all the text was treated in the same way, and it would enable you to change your selected settings later at a stroke. And yes: you could import such styles into any new document in the future or put them in an appropriate template. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] styles for plays?
On 2013-06-27 03:13, Fred James wrote:
Helen wrote:
I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of
plays.
The plays came to me
in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the
characters's speaking lines
centered -- the characters's names centered a line above.
Some of the writers seem to have centered the names with a centering
code
-- I can
highlight the name and use the left margin code to move the name to
left
margin. Others
seem to have centered by spacing over! (yes) and I have to backspace
until
I get the name
to the left margin.
None used a colon after the speaker, and the publisher wants it.
I've made
some progress with
Search Replace -- Search for all incidents of TOM and replace with
TOM
colon space. But the
most tedious part is moving TOM from center to left and bring his
speaking
lines up to begin
on the same line. Is there any way I can put these plays into a style
sheet and save this work, or
would creating the style sheet take as long as what I'm doing? I've
never
used styles. And this is a one-time
job so if I have to do it all by hand, at least it's only once.
Thanks for any advice,
Helen
Not sure this is helpful ... Things are so context dependent ... Let
me preface my remarks with:
(1) send a sample file to me (off line, if you like) and I could take
a look at it and see what I might be able to do?
(2) depends on the results of step 1
And so, on to what I have thought of so far ...
First I thought Macro (which I don't do anything with, so no help
there)
Second I thought gawk ... and I played with that with some degree of
success ...
Steps:
(1) save document as (plain) txt (no encoding)
(2) in a terminal window, apply this command to the *.txt file ...
awk '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/,)};1' filename.txt newfilename.txt
... this removes all leading (and trailing) white space, and
everything is left justified. It takes out spaces, tabs, and
centering, and the result would look like this ...
Tom
said one
Tom
said two
Tom
said three
... and LibreOffice can open and edit the new *.txt file.
That doesn't get the speaker's line adjoined or insert the necessary
: either, but depending upon context something might be made to do the
job?
Regards
Fred James
PS: credit where credit is due: I found that little one-liner at
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Hi.
I think you are almost there. You just need to do a substitution if you
have the actors names.
Substitute Tom: for Tom\n
I think you can perform substitution or transliteration on a list but
can't just locate the syntax
Something like /(Tom\n)(Burt\n)(Joan\n)/(Tom:)(Burt:)(Joan:)/
Steve
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