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Re: Can I use OODoc to create a paragraph with a mix of <daveandniki@ntlworld.com>
Re: Can I use OODoc to create a paragraph with a mix of <mark.clementsREMOVETHIS@wanadoo.fr>
Re: confused constructing a regex <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid>
Re: confused constructing a regex <tadmc@augustmail.com>
Re: confused constructing a regex <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid>
Re: getting $date (spam)
Test <ascoteric@hotmail.com>
Re: Test <tadmc@augustmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:02:50 GMT
From: "Dave" <daveandniki@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: Can I use OODoc to create a paragraph with a mix of bold and normal text?
Message-Id: <uDnne.6061$%h4.4230@newsfe3-win.ntli.net>
"Mark" <mark.clementsREMOVETHIS@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
news:429dfd1f$0$901$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
> Dave wrote:
>> I have a fairly complex Perl script that reads in data from an XML file
>> processes it and writes it to a text file. This works well. I now wish to
>> make some words bold, italic, superscript etc. On a Win32 platform I
>> could automate MSWord to do this but I would like it to be portable, so I
>> would prefer to produce an OOo document.
>>
>> I have installed the OODoc module tested it. All fine
>>
>> I have found the documentation sparse and confusing and cannot fathom how
>> to make it append formatted text to a paragraph. I want to say 'append
>> this string in bold', 'append this string in italics', 'append this
>> string as a superscript' etc. I assume I need to use the 'appendText'
>> method with appropriate options but I can't see an example of its usage.
>>
>
> is
>
> http://perl.enstimac.fr/perl5.8.5/site_perl/5.8.5/OpenOffice/OODoc/Text.html#appendtext_element_name_____options___
>
> any help?
Thanks Mark. However this is the documentation I have already seen (it is in
text.pod with the installed module), it doesn't show me how to change the
formatting for a sub-element of the paragraph. The example given doesn't
even append text to an existing paragraph it generates a new one. I'm
beginning to think that I will need to use OODoc:XPath to acheive what I
want and to do this would need to understand the file format at a deepish
level. It looks messy and complicated compared to automating Word, but I am
trying to free all my stuff from propriety formats and so want to use
OpenOffice.
I should also mention that my text is UTF-8 and this produces errors in
Encode.pm which is presumably used by OODoc. I haven't looked into why yet.
Dave
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:23:24 +0200
From: Mark <mark.clementsREMOVETHIS@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Can I use OODoc to create a paragraph with a mix of bold and normal text?
Message-Id: <429dfd1f$0$901$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr>
Dave wrote:
> I have a fairly complex Perl script that reads in data from an XML file
> processes it and writes it to a text file. This works well. I now wish to
> make some words bold, italic, superscript etc. On a Win32 platform I could
> automate MSWord to do this but I would like it to be portable, so I would
> prefer to produce an OOo document.
>
> I have installed the OODoc module tested it. All fine
>
> I have found the documentation sparse and confusing and cannot fathom how to
> make it append formatted text to a paragraph. I want to say 'append this
> string in bold', 'append this string in italics', 'append this string as a
> superscript' etc. I assume I need to use the 'appendText' method with
> appropriate options but I can't see an example of its usage.
>
is
http://perl.enstimac.fr/perl5.8.5/site_perl/5.8.5/OpenOffice/OODoc/Text.html#appendtext_element_name_____options___
any help?
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:20:34 GMT
From: leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid>
Subject: Re: confused constructing a regex
Message-Id: <S%mne.3903$cN2.926@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net>
Tad McClellan wrote:
> leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>>I have an input file of a format that looks something like this:
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The devil is in the details with regexes, so "something like" is
> likely not good enough to get a useable answer.
>
No, but I can't completely define the syntax of the input data so
implementing "something like" it then fixing failures is the best I can do.
> Can there be spaces in the already-quoted strings? Your example
> has none like that.
>
Yes there can; there can even be important characters (e.g. ()) in the
quoted strings, I'll sort those out by transliterating anything that's
left after I've parsed the data.
> Can declarations be broken across lines? eg:
>
> someArray = (value1,
> value2);
Yes, and the example included hashes declared thus.
>
> Can you have values on the RHS that you do NOT what to quote?
>
No, as everything can be eval-ed into a string and then dealt with
'upstream', as it were.
> etc...
>
[...]
>
>
> You might be able to get the LHS(s) handled by a simple
>
> s/ = / => /;
>
> and let perl autoquote for you.
>
> You'll need to change (some of?) the parens to squares for
> anonymous array elements.
>
Yes, I've sorted that bit with some transliteration, thanks.
>
>
> It would become Real Easy if you had a grammar for the data, then
> you could simply write a parser for the grammar.
>
Yup.
> Got a grammar?
>
Nope. :-(
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:28:24 -0500
From: Tad McClellan <tadmc@augustmail.com>
Subject: Re: confused constructing a regex
Message-Id: <slrnd9s6j8.2la.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid> wrote:
> Tad McClellan wrote:
>> leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have an input file of a format that looks something like this:
What generates the data?
> implementing "something like" it then fixing failures is the best I can do.
Not necessarily.
It is the best you *know how* to do.
>> It would become Real Easy if you had a grammar for the data, then
>> you could simply write a parser for the grammar.
>>
>
> Yup.
>
>> Got a grammar?
>>
> Nope. :-(
Then write a grammar for it, it looks a rather simple language to me.
It will be easier to guess at a grammar and then fix failures that
to do it with pattern matching.
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:53:05 GMT
From: leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid>
Subject: Re: confused constructing a regex
Message-Id: <Repne.5179$Mi4.744@newsfe2-win.ntli.net>
Tad McClellan wrote:
> leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid> wrote:
>
>>Tad McClellan wrote:
>>
>>>leeg <uk.ac.ox.physics.teaching@leeg.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I have an input file of a format that looks something like this:
>
>
>
> What generates the data?
>
Apple/NeXT's EOModeller application. It's an old variant of the plist
format (before XML came along).
>
>
>>implementing "something like" it then fixing failures is the best I can do.
>
>
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> It is the best you *know how* to do.
>
Actually, you'll have noticed that I don't even know how to do that :-)
>
>
>>>It would become Real Easy if you had a grammar for the data, then
>>>you could simply write a parser for the grammar.
>>>
>>
>>Yup.
>>
>>
>>>Got a grammar?
>>>
>>
>>Nope. :-(
>
>
>
> Then write a grammar for it, it looks a rather simple language to me.
>
> It will be easier to guess at a grammar and then fix failures that
> to do it with pattern matching.
>
>
Perhaps, I don't know how to write a grammar engine either.... :-(
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:28:16 +0200
From: spam@zeouane.org (spam)
Subject: Re: getting $date
Message-Id: <1gxfiea.1118sdt6y4us9N%spam@zeouane.org>
Josef Moellers <josef.moellers@fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
> spam wrote:
> > Graham Gough <graham@cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>perldoc -f localtime
> >
> >
> > That probably is what I'm looking for, but the perldoc page isn't (to
> > me, a newbie) very clear ..
> >
> > Converts a time as returned by the time function to a 9-element
> > list with the time analyzed for the local time zone.
> > Typically
> > used as follows:
> >
> > # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
> > ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)
> > = localtime(time);
> >
> > OK, so in my code, I put ...
> >
> > my $date = localtime ($day, $mday, $year) ;
> >
> > No surprises: it doesn't work.
> >
> > All other combinations (locatime inside brackets, outside brackets, with
> > curly brackets, with $ in front, after, in the middle ..) don't work.
>
> You need to master elemntary perl first, before trying such am ambitous
> project B-{)
Oh, I agree. :-(
--
spam
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 21:18:26 +0200
From: "Ascoteric" <ascoteric@hotmail.com>
Subject: Test
Message-Id: <d7l238$5hh$65@news.hispeed.ch>
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:30:49 -0500
From: Tad McClellan <tadmc@augustmail.com>
Subject: Re: Test
Message-Id: <slrnd9s6np.2la.tadmc@magna.augustmail.com>
Ascoteric <ascoteric@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Subject: Test
What were you testing?
To see if you could get yourself killfiled before asking even
a single question?
If so, then the test has passed!
So long.
--
Tad McClellan SGML consulting
tadmc@augustmail.com Perl programming
Fort Worth, Texas
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