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by dgcuff
Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:17 pm
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: Perl syntax blindness
Replies: 1
Views: 2913

Perl syntax blindness

I can't see what I'm doing wrong, and need a second pair of eyes to check me.

My find pattern (type perl) is "on page \d{1,3}". My replacement is "on page <pagenum>".

When the text is "on page 333", the result is "on page <pagenum>33".

I would have thought that the find pattern would deal with ...
by dgcuff
Tue Mar 24, 2009 3:51 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: FrameMaker MIF: replacing text in specific tags
Replies: 4
Views: 7081

Re: FrameMaker MIF: replacing text in specific tags

Incidentally, for the benefit of any FrameMaker users reading, I had to make a couple of changes to the top-level filter to deal with optional text:

<PgfTag `(Heading2|Heading1|ChapterTitle)'>(|\s*<PgfReferenced Yes>)\s*<ParaLine(|\s*<TextRectID \d{1,4}>)\s*<String `(.*)'>

Also, for the table ...
by dgcuff
Tue Mar 24, 2009 1:37 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: FrameMaker MIF: replacing text in specific tags
Replies: 4
Views: 7081

Re: FrameMaker MIF: replacing text in specific tags

INSIDE this filter, add Title Case as a subfilter. Does that make sense?

Thanks, the subfilter approach makes perfect sense (that much I'd figured out), but your implementation gets around a bunch of things that had me scratching my head. And you've also answered my question: since TextPipe Lite ...
by dgcuff
Fri Mar 20, 2009 1:56 am
Forum: TextPipe Tips and Tricks, Questions and Support
Topic: FrameMaker MIF: replacing text in specific tags
Replies: 4
Views: 7081

FrameMaker MIF: replacing text in specific tags

I'm not even sure I can accomplish what I need to in TextPipe Lite... it may be time to upgrade.

I want to change the text that appears in multiple tags. For example, I have tags "Heading 1", "Heading 2", "Chapter Title", and "Figure Caption". I want all the text in these tags to appear in sentence ...