On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 12:56:28PM +0300, Omer Zak wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 11:51 +0300, avraham wrote: > > In all these cases I had to retype the line. Apparenly there were > > some unprintable characters that did not agree with LaTeX. > > 1-I was not able to detect these characters with :set list in > > vim. I tried "cat -A of the commented-out lines, but as these > > were Hebrew text, the output was not really helpful. > > Any clever suggestion ? > > Write a script (maybe in Perl or Python) which looks for those > characters, and substitutes them into some printable representation. > If you need help, and give me an example, I can write for you such a > script. > > > 2-In the dvi file I could see a number of cases where numbers or > > parantheses had come out the wrong way around (not always, mind > > you, that would have been easy to correct). The problem is to > > spot these in the source file, when these occur in the middle of > > the Hebrew text. > > I think that you can use an heuristic to fix the parentheses, assuming > that there are never nested parentheses: > Count both opening and closing parentheses. Odd-numbered (starting the > count from 1) parentheses are opening ones. Even-numbered ones are > closing ones. > You still will need some heuristic to deal with text which has open > parenthesis but not closing parenthesis, if there are such cases in your > documents. > > About numbers, maybe you can assume that no number in a recipe can start > with 0. Again, this assumes some script work. > --- Omer > -- > One does not make peace with enemies. One makes peace with former > enemies. > My own blog is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/tddpirate/ > > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, Thanks for the kind and generous (with your time) offer. 1-I know neither perl nor python, but I'll try to implement your idea with the tools I know (scripting with sed and/or tr, using special keyboard for the terminal etc.) If I fail AND I come across a similar problem, but requiring much more work for the brute-force approach than the present case, I might remind you your offer, or, maybe, get enough motivation to learn elements of perl/python, just like I got the motivation to learn LaTeX. 2-I did things similar to what you are suggesting (searched for )..*( strings, for example. It was easy to recognize the cases of incorrect parantheses vs end of one paranthesys pair + the beginning of the next). >From yours and Tzafrir's answer I undestand that not being able to find a way to use Hebrew on vim's command-line is not just due to my ignorance... Thanks again, Avraham
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