On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:20 AM, David B Teague <[email protected]>wrote:
> TomW wrote: > >> David B Teague wrote: >> >>> TomW wrote: >>> >>>> David B Teague wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> <SNIP> >>>>> >>>> <SNIP>. >>> >>> These numbers for which I am searching are generated by OpenOffice.org, >>> and you cannot highlight them, nor copy them to the clip board. And in my >>> experience regular expressions don't find them. >>> >>> BTW I never did find how to do this in MS Word either. I was hoping it >>> might be possible here in some simple way. >>> >>> David >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >> >> My apologies to all. I do not know what I was thinking when I came up >> with that response. Too many projects! Too little time! And DSL >> connection from hell!!! >> >> TomW >> > Tom: > > Thanks for the apology. I assume that I didn't make myself clear when there > is confusion, so I was not "put out" in any way. And I understand the > troublesome DSL connection. I spent my first year of DSL with a connection > that went up and down like a yo-yo. > > I still would like to be able to do search for OO.o numbered list items by > list number. > > This comes up frequently in making a local copy of Wikipedia articles by > copy and paste to OO.o. There the reference numbers are in the text but the > reference numbers are generated by OO.o. While the links work on the web > pate, they don't refer to the copied list in the OO.o copy. > > Any help from anyone? Even an answer that "This isn't possible." would > almost be welcome. Then I might make a "request for feature." > > Warmest Regards > David > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > David, I think what you are asking for is similar to the many requests for a "reveal codes" feature and for the ability to search for hard paragraph breaks. All such requests assume that there are characters in the document that contain the numbers or represent the hard break or that there are embedded codes that control the structure of the document. However, if I understand the document structure correctly, it is really an XML document represented in a complex data structure in memory. If you were to try to search an HTML file for the numbers in the line items in an ordered list element, you would have a similar problem because the numbers are not generated until the document is displayed. I imagine one could design a search engine that was aware of the document structure, but I'm not aware of any projects that attempt to do so. Perhaps if you tried on the developers list to ask about such an ability you would get a better answer than from us mere users. John
