jomali wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 8:20 AM, David B Teague <[email protected]>wrote:
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I still would like to be able to do search for OO.o numbered list items by
list number.
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Warmest Regards
David
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
OK. I knew about the peculiar format of the document in memory, and I
now understand why the search I want to do hasn't been implemented (yet,
I hope.) I'll make a "request for feature." But that will have to wait
until my move to a new residence with a new wife is complete. Thanks.
With warmest regards
David Teague
