On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:42, Greg London wrote: > I have a OpenOffice document that is a perl training manual. > > http://www.greglondon.com/iperl/ > > The manual has a lot of perl excerpts in it. > I'd like to be able to keep the excerpts in external files > and somehow shadow them in the document, so that I can run > the perl script to check for typos, and if I change anything, > it shows up in the document. > > right now, the code is pasted in the document, > and to run it, I paste it into a file, save it, > and run it. If there are bugs, I fix them, > and then paste the content back into the document. > > Is there an easier way to do this? > > Maintenance has become a nightmare. > This maybe a dumb idea, but what about working the other way.
I have been thinking about developing macros for Writer so that Syntax highlighting occurs, and can select a portion of text and at the click of a button run an external interpreter. I confess that I know virtually nothing about Perl, so I'm not sure how feasible this idea is for Perl. Thanks, Ian Web: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
