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Word-Processor File-Types for Scripting

Posted 05-29-2019 at 06:30 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 09-19-2020 at 01:46 AM by Michael Uplawski (SoftMaker Office 2021 has improved xml standard-compliance)

Tags abiword, ooxml, opendocument, xml

The Big Unification

Current Word-processors read and write different XML-based file-formats. The standards which are more or less implemented by these programs, are OOXML and/or OpenDocument. I write “more or less”, because for diverse reasons, Office-suites differ in the way that they compose documents of one certain type. The variations can result in a completely valid document or one that diverts from the standard and the existing schema-definitions (xsd). There is always the risk that

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download radio broadcasts in mp3 format

Posted 01-26-2019 at 07:11 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 03-09-2019 at 01:44 AM by Michael Uplawski (remark on general interest)

Tags france culture, france inter, mp3 download, radio broadcast

Edit: I just mention that the procedure used in the below script is generally applicable in any situation where you want to get a piece of “Web” while avoiding a downright Web-Browser and wherever you can replace it by curl or wget.

No this is not spectacular.

When I try to listen to a precise broadcast on France Culture (www.franceculture.fr), because I have missed it in the morning, I am confronted with a page that wants to open more than 25 connections to sites external...

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Transform HTML to LQ markup or -down

Posted 10-13-2018 at 05:37 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-10-2018 at 12:32 AM by Michael Uplawski

Tags html, lq-markup, markup, xslt, xsltproc

Again, I have written a XSL stylesheet.

This time, it serves me to facilitate writing posts and blog entries, here on LinuxQuestions.org, by transforming HTML to the markdown-syntax supported by LQ.

Taken the html-version of a man-page, like for HTML2Index, which is generated automatically alongside the other file-formats (PDF and man), I can call an xsltprocessor, like xsltproc with the new stylesheet and get a text-version of the HTML-page, ready to be copied&pasted...

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(OOXML/XSL) Write man-pages in a modern text-processor

Posted 09-08-2018 at 12:56 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 09-08-2018 at 05:54 AM by Michael Uplawski (Corrections. Style sheet improved.)

Tags documentation, man, ooxml, restructuredtext, xsl

On the topic of writing man-pages as reStructuredText, see also simple-write-man-pages-docutils-and-tweaks (in this blog).
Introduction

In short, I have written an XSL-stylesheet to transform the XML-code from an OOXML document (M$ Word® format docx or SoftMaker®'s tmdx) into a reStructuredText file.

The current edition produces enough formatting for a man-page, although some enhancements should allow the inclusion of tables.

Text-Processor Templates

In the original OOXML

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Found the old replace command

Posted 08-18-2018 at 03:48 AM by Michael Uplawski
Updated 11-13-2021 at 12:45 AM by Michael Uplawski (Category and missing sarcasm added. Orthography.)

... funny.

Discover the Norman religion:

Code:

me@this_PC:~$ echo "We can't do nothing, face it!" | replace "can't" "do not want to"
We do not want to do nothing, face it!

But the command was not available anymore. Dummy me. I have written it myself a while ago!

The script:

Code:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding UTF-8
#
# This utility reads text from STDIN (via a pipe) and replaces

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