On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 16:54 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > time for my two cents: I do everything in vi simply because my > fingers know it. in my essays I indicate italics by *this*: ascii > delimited by asterisks. translating this to word-processor > format--Openoffice-- was accomplished by an expression a regex guru > described:: > > Click at the beginning of the document then use Find & Replace. > > Check "Regular Expressions". > Search For: \*([^\*]*)\* > Replace With: $1 > Select Format > Font > Italic for the Replace With box. > Click Replace All. > > worked flawlessly for OOo; not so with libreoffice. [[ and yeah, I > tried several times. ]] As I recall, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice already have a built-in function to replace "seetext" style markup, which is asterisks around bold text, you might be fighting with that. The seetext style markup for italics, was to put a slash either side. I can't remember if it supported that, at all. And I'm on the wrong computer to try. e.g. I am *bold* or /italics/. Various mail clients will interpret those characters sequences, too. Which can be a major pain when perusing source code snippets in mail. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
