Hi all,
I'd like to mention that, with the patch I committed right now on the
SVN, the current version of LyX from trunk implements correctly this
kind of feature, i.e., you can search for a plain word and replace it
with its emphasized or boldface version, or search for some text (i.e.,
X1) and replace it with a math symbol ($X_1$), or you can search for
some maths (i.e., $X^1$) and replace it with some rework of it (i.e.,
$Y_1$), etc.. I know there are many use-cases, and I hope somebody helps
in identifying the most important ones and/or possible issues.
Regards,
Tommaso
Tommaso Cucinotta ha scritto:
Bruce Pourciau ha scritto:
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote:
On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize
(emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word?
Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some
sort on the .lyx file. E.g.:
sed -e 's/ that / \n\n\\emph on\nthat\n\\emph default\n /g' < t.lyx
>tt.lyx
is a dumb sed one-liner that almost does it.
This is acutally the usage scenario I'm trying to target with the
"Find LyX..." (a.k.a., Advanced Search or Find Advanced) feature of
LyX 2.0.0 from svn. There, you can enter arbitrarily complex LyX text
inside the Replace... area, so that you can do (in principle) exactly
what you are seeking for. It doesn't work perfectly fine, as of now,
for example, in your case, after the replacement, you would get a set
of "\emph{word}" instead of the word emphasized, but I think it won't
be difficult to fix such issues.
Of course, for the advanced user, the text-based search/replace made
directly on the .lyx file with a text editor, is the only thing you
can do with the current official LyX releases, and it works (unless
you make mistakes -- backup first).
Bye,
Tommaso
