[kwlug-disc] Converting a document

[john at netdirect.ca]

kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org wrote on 05/18/2009 09:23:32 PM:
> Ya, probably.  Sadly, I never spent much time learning script writing,
> so I was hoping to avoid that.  I was hoping that someone might know of
> an existing script to do it, since the author implies that a word
> processor could do it.

Script is being generous. Sed can do it like this:

sed -i 's-L\(.\): \[\([^]]*\)\] :L.-<h\1>\2</h\1>-' /tmp/document.txt

Although the regular expression looks complicated it only represents a few 
operators.

But it looks like there are lots of other fixes needed. There are foot 
notes, dots signifying empty lines, rows of asterisks, lists, etc.

Unless you have lots of other documents that use the same formatting you 
may be better off to run a few replaces, like the sed command above, and 
manually edit the rest.


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