[libreoffice-users] Re: styles for plays?
On 6/26/13 7:46 AM, Helen wrote: I've volunteered to edit a one-time publication of a collection of plays. The plays came to me in different styles -- three of the plays came to me with all the characters's speaking lines centered -- the characters's names centered a line above. Some of the writers seem to have centered the names with a centering code -- I can highlight the name and use the left margin code to move the name to left margin. Others seem to have centered by spacing over! (yes) and I have to backspace until I get the name to the left margin. None used a colon after the speaker, and the publisher wants it. I've made some progress with Search Replace -- Search for all incidents of TOM and replace with TOM colon space. But the most tedious part is moving TOM from center to left and bring his speaking lines up to begin on the same line. Is there any way I can put these plays into a style sheet and save this work, or would creating the style sheet take as long as what I'm doing? I've never used styles. And this is a one-time job so if I have to do it all by hand, at least it's only once. Thanks for any advice, Hi, Helen, I thought for some time about posting this, but I'm getting into the mindset of looking for the best tool for a job, and offering the best suggestion I have for solutions. Just not going to worry about irritating anyone anymore. Since this is a one time thing, there's a program out there for scriptwriters and such, called Scrivener. It has a 30 day trial period. It is certainly different, you may find it somewhat confusing to pick up. It's not meant to replace a traditional word processor, it's more of a specialized document processor, but it may do the job. I'm doing some research to correct errors in an interpretive presentation I do daily at work, and I couldn't be happier with the ability to store all your research notes in one place. This is a specialty tool, and I still have the current LO installed. If your project is fairly large, it may be worth your time to take a quick look. If you want to know more offline, since this isn't a Scrivener help list, feel free to contact me. The email address is valid. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.4 Firefox 20.0 Thunderbird 17.0.5 LibreOffice 4.0.3.3 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: styles for plays?
Helen, Interesting issue. The manual centering is simply multiple tabs ,\t, or multiple space characters. Replace the multiple occurrences with nothing to remove it and bring all text to left margin. Get all the formatting removed so you are left with just the text. The key to your effort is to remove the direct styling from the text, and apply document wide styling to paragraphs. Choose from existing styles, or create new style sto apply against paragraphs, fonts, pages of each play as you'd like. If you are comfortable extracting the XML text component--content.xml-- from the .odt container you can flush it through the stream editor--sed. Or gawk, or perl, or python, etc. to make editing corrections (removing white space and joining actor to their lines with a colon). Then return the edited content.xml back to the .odt container, and then apply consistent styles from LibreOffice. However, working within Writer--you can accomplish much of the text clean up using the find-replace GUI widget. Open the + other options panel, and select the regular expression checkbox. LibreOffice regular expressions are described here: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions with a bit more detailed instruction here (panels are a bit different between LibreOffice and OpenOffice): http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer The other approach, would be to open the document and copy all contents out to a text file, then edit that with sed, gawk, perl or python--and insert the now consistent text into a new LibreOffice document and then apply styles to the text. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/styles-for-plays-tp4063106p4063138.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: styles for plays?
Stuart, Fred, Brian, Steve -- thank you for great ideas. I've learned a lot of useful things that I'll make notes on here. Thanks! On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, V Stuart Foote vstuart.fo...@utsa.eduwrote: Helen, Interesting issue. The manual centering is simply multiple tabs ,\t, or multiple space characters. Replace the multiple occurrences with nothing to remove it and bring all text to left margin. Get all the formatting removed so you are left with just the text. The key to your effort is to remove the direct styling from the text, and apply document wide styling to paragraphs. Choose from existing styles, or create new style sto apply against paragraphs, fonts, pages of each play as you'd like. If you are comfortable extracting the XML text component--content.xml-- from the .odt container you can flush it through the stream editor--sed. Or gawk, or perl, or python, etc. to make editing corrections (removing white space and joining actor to their lines with a colon). Then return the edited content.xml back to the .odt container, and then apply consistent styles from LibreOffice. However, working within Writer--you can accomplish much of the text clean up using the find-replace GUI widget. Open the + other options panel, and select the regular expression checkbox. LibreOffice regular expressions are described here: https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions with a bit more detailed instruction here (panels are a bit different between LibreOffice and OpenOffice): http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer The other approach, would be to open the document and copy all contents out to a text file, then edit that with sed, gawk, perl or python--and insert the now consistent text into a new LibreOffice document and then apply styles to the text. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/styles-for-plays-tp4063106p4063138.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Helen Etters using Linux, suse12.3 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
