Perhaps LO Find & Replace using Regular expressions would work. Not an LO solution but SED can be useful for such tasks. Can you post a sample of the file contents?
On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Robert Funnell <robert.funn...@mcgill.ca> wrote: > Walther - > > Could you open your content.xml with Emacs and record a macro to find and > remove the hidden text? (I'm not sure that qualifies as simple.) > > - Robert > > On Tue, 3 May 2016, Walther Koehler wrote: > > Hallo, >> Am Dienstag, 3. Mai 2016 schrieb Bruce Hohl: >> >>> > Do you have some advice how to remove the hidden (hard-)formatted text >>> in >>> >>> a >>> >>> > simple way? >>> >>> File > Save :: Save as type = Text (.txt) OR Text - Choose Encoding >>> (.txt) >>> Thus, LO can be used to read, create and edit unformatted text files. >>> >> >> Yes, you are right, but it does not solve my problem. The text file will >> contain the hidden formated text. >> >> To make it very clear: >> I do not care about the format information in the file. >> I do not want the content (the hidden formated characters) in the file >> before shipping. >> >> Using linux, the command line program xpath might do the job. It is >> capable of removing certain xml tags in a file like >> >> <text:p text:style-name="P2">blabla</text:p> >> >> Regards >> >> Walther >> >> ... >> >> > > From: Walther Koehler <walther.koeh...@posteo.de> >>> > > Date: Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 5:54 AM >>> > > Subject: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt >>> > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Dear LO users, >>> > > >>> > > I would like to give away *.odt files without hidden formated text. >>> > > Do you have some advice how to remove the hidden (hard-)formatted >>> text >>> > >>> > in a >>> > >>> > > simple way? >>> > > Is it possible by a macro? >>> > > >>> > > (I am aware that you can make hidden text invisible and print the >>> file >>> > > without >>> > > hidden text on paper. I also know how to remove properties) >>> > > >>> > > Thank you in advance >>> > > >>> > > Walther >>> >> > -- > 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 > > -- 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
