Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
This message [below] is not as I sent it - I do not know how the bracketed information appeared in the middle of my message - I don't even know what [if you use Paste Special... to paste unformatted text] means ;-) But: footnotes are numbered - therefore, clicking on 'find' and 'search'ing the number will locate the footnote ... continuing in this fashion, from 1 until each has been found and re-formatted, is not that time-consuming - more frustrating having to re-do what was already done before whatever 'kink' interfered ;-) On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote: At 09:26 22/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: yes, footnotes become jumbled; but the fact these are numbered makes them 'find'able ;-) I think you are making this up! If you copy the footnote text and paste it (even if you don't use Paste Special...), you get just the text of the footnotes: there are no numbers. And strictly, the text of the different footnotes is concatenated, not jumbled, of course. But perhaps you mean the footnote markers in the body text; they are indeed preserved (though no longer connected to anything). Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
I had never heard of the paste special feature, so I just tried it. I started with an .rtf file that LO didn't like. I selected the entire file with Ctrl-A, copied it (Ctrl-C) and then pasted it special back onto itself as unformatted text. It worked just as well as copying to a text editor. Kinda slick actually. But, with either method, I lost the contents of my footnotes. To date, I haven't found a way with LO to convert formatted text to plain unformatted text and keep footnotes. Virgil Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice At 18:14 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: If you merely copy paste over the initial file, then the messed-up formatting may still exist; That's why that wasn't my suggestion! in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing the 'kink', the document needs to be fresh ;-) That's not true. But in any case, you are presumably suggesting that a fresh document would anyway be necessary with your round-the-houses route via other software. Again, you are very welcome to go the long way around if you prefer. You will not be the only person to do so. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
At 08:28 22/12/2012 -0500, Virgil Aonly wrote: I had never heard of the paste special feature, so I just tried it. I started with an .rtf file that LO didn't like. I selected the entire file with Ctrl-A, copied it (Ctrl-C) and then pasted it special back onto itself as unformatted text. It worked just as well as copying to a text editor. Kinda slick actually. But, with either method, I lost the contents of my footnotes. To date, I haven't found a way with LO to convert formatted text to plain unformatted text and keep footnotes. The problem is not with Paste Special... but simply with the fact that Ctrl+A selects either all the body text or all of a single footnote, depending on where the cursor is. If you paste an unformatted copy of the body text, you lose the connection to footnotes and so lose the footnotes too. But there is a way to salvage the footnote text: o Go to Edit | Find Replace... (or Ctrl+F). o If necessary, click More Options. o Tick Search for Styles. o Under Search for, select Footnote from the drop-down menu. o Click Find All to select the text of all footnotes. o You can now copy the footnote text and paste it as required. The text of all the footnotes will be concatenated into a single piece of text and will lose all connection to the original footnote markers - but this is in the nature of what you will be trying to achieve using Paste Special... in any case, of course. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
yes, footnotes become jumbled; but the fact these are numbered makes them 'find'able ;-) During the 15-30 minutes you're locating these and correcting them, you can contemplate all sorts of nasty things to do to these 'glorified typewriters' or you can think pleasant thoughts while listening to some nice music or ... somewhere in between ;-) On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 7:28 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: I had never heard of the paste special feature, so I just tried it. I started with an .rtf file that LO didn't like. I selected the entire file with Ctrl-A, copied it (Ctrl-C) and then pasted it special back onto itself as unformatted text. It worked just as well as copying to a text editor. Kinda slick actually. But, with either method, I lost the contents of my footnotes. To date, I haven't found a way with LO to convert formatted text to plain unformatted text and keep footnotes. Virgil Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice At 18:14 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: If you merely copy paste over the initial file, then the messed-up formatting may still exist; That's why that wasn't my suggestion! in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing the 'kink', the document needs to be fresh ;-) That's not true. But in any case, you are presumably suggesting that a fresh document would anyway be necessary with your round-the-houses route via other software. Again, you are very welcome to go the long way around if you prefer. You will not be the only person to do so. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
At 09:26 22/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: yes, footnotes become jumbled [if you use Paste Special... to paste unformatted text]; but the fact these are numbered makes them 'find'able ;-) I think you are making this up! If you copy the footnote text and paste it (even if you don't use Paste Special...), you get just the text of the footnotes: there are no numbers. And strictly, the text of the different footnotes is concatenated, not jumbled, of course. But perhaps you mean the footnote markers in the body text; they are indeed preserved (though no longer connected to anything). Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk. I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too many time. I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful. I can't use regex for automatize the work. It's really a sin. So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and then convert it. I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible evidently. Thanks to all Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto: When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ... merely 'select all' - copy - paste to notepad - all the text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content, such as footnotes. Good luck. Virgil From: lordmax tdf Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Vuoi fare un regalo davvero originale? Su MisterCupido.com troverai centinaia di IDEE REGALO per tutte le tasche! Consegne in tutta Italia in soli 2-3 giorni Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=12387d=21-12 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi :) Styles and Templates are a really fast way of imposing new formatting after you have converted it all into plain text. It might sound like something that is going to take ages but you would be surprised at how fast you can get through it the way people are recommending. It surprised me! With Word i had often spent hours trying to un-mess documents from other people but Writer's use of styles makes it fast and simple. Another advantage with Writer's use of styles is that you can change the font throughout a document really quickly. Just right-click on the text body style and change the font there. Same with the default style and then as you go through other styles you have used you may find some have already changed automatically. I sometimes select a large area of text and force it to change style between a few different styles that i don't want the text to appear in and then settle it all as text-body. That usually clears a lot of the messes. Then just go through and select headings and sub-headings and set their style as heading1 or heading 2 or whatever is the appropriate level. See Chapter 3 in the Getting Started Guide as it probably has even faster ways of getting through the document https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: lordmax tdf lordmax-...@email.it To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:13 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk. I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too many time. I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful. I can't use regex for automatize the work. It's really a sin. So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and then convert it. I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible evidently. Thanks to all Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto: When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ... merely 'select all' - copy - paste to notepad - all the text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content, such as footnotes. Good luck. Virgil From: lordmax tdf Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Vuoi fare un regalo davvero originale? Su MisterCupido.com troverai centinaia di IDEE REGALO per tutte le tasche! Consegne in tutta Italia in soli 2-3 giorni Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=12387d=21-12 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Maybe I'm not understanding your problem, but ... it should take less time to 'select all' - paste into notepad [thereby removing all formatting] - 'select all' and paste into a new LO blank document. At this point, 'select all' and click on the formatting you desire; then scan through to catch the footnotes to place them back in line. I've done this a few times; time is about 15 minutes; having to scan through those footnotes which have become out of line ;-) save time at this point by 'find'ing each by number ;-) On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 4:13 AM, lordmax tdf lordmax-...@email.it wrote: Hi all Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk. I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too many time. I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful. I can't use regex for automatize the work. It's really a sin. So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and then convert it. I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible evidently. Thanks to all Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto: When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ... merely 'select all' - copy - paste to notepad - all the text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content, such as footnotes. Good luck. Virgil From: lordmax tdf Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
thanks; some more good tips. On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Styles and Templates are a really fast way of imposing new formatting after you have converted it all into plain text. It might sound like something that is going to take ages but you would be surprised at how fast you can get through it the way people are recommending. It surprised me! With Word i had often spent hours trying to un-mess documents from other people but Writer's use of styles makes it fast and simple. Another advantage with Writer's use of styles is that you can change the font throughout a document really quickly. Just right-click on the text body style and change the font there. Same with the default style and then as you go through other styles you have used you may find some have already changed automatically. I sometimes select a large area of text and force it to change style between a few different styles that i don't want the text to appear in and then settle it all as text-body. That usually clears a lot of the messes. Then just go through and select headings and sub-headings and set their style as heading1 or heading 2 or whatever is the appropriate level. See Chapter 3 in the Getting Started Guide as it probably has even faster ways of getting through the document https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Good luck and regards from Tom :) From: lordmax tdf lordmax-...@email.it To: Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 21 December 2012, 10:13 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all Thanks for your suggestion but it isn't a way I can walk. I have documents of more than 500 pages, if I must reformat all I never end I can't remove all formatting and start from scratch because it take too many time. I can't remove all blank paragraphs because many of them are useful. I can't use regex for automatize the work. It's really a sin. So well, I must work on Office Word first for formatting document and then convert it. I would want to work totally on libreoffice but it isn't possible evidently. Thanks to all Il 21/12/2012 02:27, anne-ology ha scritto: When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ... merely 'select all' - copy - paste to notepad - all the text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content, such as footnotes. Good luck. Virgil From: lordmax tdf Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
At 09:58 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne McGinnis wrote: ... it should take less time to 'select all' - paste into notepad [thereby removing all formatting] - 'select all' and paste into a new LO blank document. You've said this a couple of times now, so it is worth pointing out (perhaps for other readers' benefit) that this is an unnecessarily complicated technique. Use of Edit | Paste Special... | Unformatted text (or Ctrl+Shift+V | Unformatted text) in LibreOffice is all that is required. No need for Notepad or any other separate software. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
The KeepItSimpleS method is the way I've always found most effective; saves having to memorize all those short-cuts - acronyms - ... ... ... On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote: At 09:58 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne wrote: ... it should take less time to 'select all' - paste into notepad [thereby removing all formatting] - 'select all' and paste into a new LO blank document. You've said this a couple of times now, so it is worth pointing out (perhaps for other readers' benefit) that this is an unnecessarily complicated technique. Use of Edit | Paste Special... | Unformatted text (or Ctrl+Shift+V | Unformatted text) in LibreOffice is all that is required. No need for Notepad or any other separate software. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
At 12:24 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote: Use of Edit | Paste Special... | Unformatted text (or Ctrl+Shift+V | Unformatted text) in LibreOffice is all that is required. No need for Notepad or any other separate software. The KeepItSimpleS method is the way I've always found most effective; saves having to memorize all those short-cuts - acronyms - ... You think it is simpler to start a separate piece of software, copy and paste some text out of one program into the other, and copy and paste it back again, than just copy-and-pasting it back over itself in the original document? Pardon me, but Ho, ho! You are very welcome to do this, of course. (I was evidently more right than I knew when I added perhaps for other readers' benefit!) Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
If you merely copy paste over the initial file, then the messed-up formatting may still exist; in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing the 'kink', the document needs to be fresh ;-) I learned this when that silly .rtf was around ... I had a great letter ready to print out then mail off; I printed the first one to re-edit for any typos I might have missed to discover that intermingled among the text was all this gobbledegook ;-) After trying 3 times, I switched to notepad; this cleared the formatting ... then I placed the text around the images in OO [yes, it was a while back ;-) ] and it printed out as it appeared on the monitor :-) On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote: At 12:24 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Brian Barker wrote: Use of Edit | Paste Special... | Unformatted text (or Ctrl+Shift+V | Unformatted text) in LibreOffice is all that is required. No need for Notepad or any other separate software. The KeepItSimpleS method is the way I've always found most effective; saves having to memorize all those short-cuts - acronyms - ... You think it is simpler to start a separate piece of software, copy and paste some text out of one program into the other, and copy and paste it back again, than just copy-and-pasting it back over itself in the original document? Pardon me, but Ho, ho! You are very welcome to do this, of course. (I was evidently more right than I knew when I added perhaps for other readers' benefit!) Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
At 18:14 21/12/2012 -0600, Anne Noname wrote: If you merely copy paste over the initial file, then the messed-up formatting may still exist; That's why that wasn't my suggestion! in order to be sure of eliminating whatever might be causing the 'kink', the document needs to be fresh ;-) That's not true. But in any case, you are presumably suggesting that a fresh document would anyway be necessary with your round-the-houses route via other software. Again, you are very welcome to go the long way around if you prefer. You will not be the only person to do so. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Ami l'arte e vuoi arredare casa con stile? Su MisterCupido.com puoi acquistare le RIPRODUZIONI DEI QUADRI di: Van Gogh, Monet, Klimt, Modigliani, Cezanne, Hayez, Michelangelo, Raffaello, ecc Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=12386d=20-12 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content, such as footnotes. Good luck. Virgil -Original Message- From: lordmax tdf Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- Caselle da 1GB, trasmetti allegati fino a 3GB e in piu' IMAP, POP3 e SMTP autenticato? GRATIS solo con Email.it http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Ami l'arte e vuoi arredare casa con stile? Su MisterCupido.com puoi acquistare le RIPRODUZIONI DEI QUADRI di: Van Gogh, Monet, Klimt, Modigliani, Cezanne, Hayez, Michelangelo, Raffaello, ecc Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=12386d=20-12 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice
When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ... merely 'select all' - copy - paste to notepad - all the text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content, such as footnotes. Good luck. Virgil From: lordmax tdf Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way to get some works on styles via reg ex but I've found nothing, nor in the help, nor in the wiki, nor of useful on internet My first need is to modify lines before and after the chapter title. In my doc I've a blank line, a line with the chapter title and one or more blank lines all in header1 style I haven't found a way to select styles via regex and I can't simply change all the blank lines because they are in many different styles I've already searched on internet and in the libreoffice/openoffice forum but I haven't find any solutions. Can you help me? Thanks -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
