On Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:24 PM [GMT+1=CET],
Michele Zarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/30/07, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 30/01/07, Pradeep Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Members:
Let us assume I have a **plain text** file. I would like to open
this text
file in Writer (no problems here, even a crass moron like me can do
_that_
much <grin>).
What I would like to know is : Is there a method by which I can
insert "tags"
into the plain text file (corresponding to appropriate styles in
Writer),
which, when getting "imported" or opened by Writer, gets
recognised ?
To elucidate, say I have a style that is labeled "small_caps_bold"
that
I
have
defined in Writer. Is there a method that I can prepend a tag
(say) "<small_caps_bold>" to a paragraph in a plain text file,
which,
when
read by Writer can set the correct style till it meets the next
tag ?
I had used such a functionality, a very long time ago, in
PageMaker...
Any responses would be well appreciated.
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Pradeep Srinivas
Bangalore, India
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The best I can think of is to add HTML tags. There are free HTML
editors out
there apart from OpenOffice. I have used one called Arachnophilia (
http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/). With it you can select a
section of text and click a button to have it surround the
selection with HTML start
and end tags that reflect the meaning of the button. And you can
create your
own buttons and macros. So you could select a section of text and
click a button labelled "Bold" to have the phrase surrounded by the
appropriate HTML
tags ("<b>" and "</b>" in this example). The program comes as a jar
file or
as a Windows self installer. It will run on anything that has Java
properly
installed.
I guess you could do the same with XML and CSS Style sheets but I
don't know
too much about those. I think the latest Arachnophilia supports XML.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
Hello Pradeep,
If I understand correctly your problem Harold's solution is a good
start allowing you to create the tags, but then I am afraid you will
have to write a macro that parses the text file and creates a .odt
applying the styles you want.
I guess the boring part of the macro is to select the text between
the tags in the text file. Applying a style instead is fairly
straightforward.
Cheers,
Michele
The program I mentioned, Arachnophilia, will allow you to "wrap" your text
in valid HTML headers and footers so that it is a valid HTML file. Having
done that you can apply HTML tags as I mentioned before and then save the
result as an HTML file. Having done that you should be able to open it with
OO and save it as an ODT file.
Assuming you can programatically recognise the text that is relevant to each
"style" you could easily write a Perl script to read the text and output a
valid HTML file which can then be imported into OO. For automating this
process, Perl is definitley your friend.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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