I want to copy a table from iPython notebook into a Word doc. I'm using Word for Mac 2011. The table is a standard pandas output and looks like this:
If I use Apple+C to copy the table, and then paste it into a Word doc, I get this:
Surely there must be an easier way?
Creating a table with the same number of rows/columns in Word and then trying to paste the cells there doesn't work either.
I guess I could screenshot the table, but I'd like to include the raw data in the document if possible.
The problem in this case (from the Word perspective) is not the table layout - it's the paragraph layout. Each paragraph has a substantial indent on right and left, and more space before/after than you would normally want.
I don't think any of the Paste options (e.g. Paste Special) in Word is going to help, unless you paste as unformatted text, then select the text, convert to a table, then proceed from there.
But, even a simple Word VBA macro such as this one will leave you with something a bit more manageable. (Select a table you copied in, then run the macro). A little bit more work on the code would probably allow you to get most of the formatting you want, most of the time.
Sub fixupSelectedTable()
With Selection.Tables(1).Range.ParagraphFormat
.LeftIndent = 0
.RightIndent = 0
.SpaceBefore = 0
.SpaceAfter = 0
.LineSpacingRule = wdLineSpaceSingle
End With
End Sub
If you are more familiar with Applescript, the equivalent looks something like this:
-- you may need to fix up the application name
-- (I use this to ensure that the script uses the Open Word 2011 doc
-- and does not try to start Word for Mac 15 (2016))
tell application "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/Microsoft Word.app"
tell the paragraph format of the text object of table 1 of the text object of the selection
set paragraph format left indent to 0
set paragraph format right indent to 0
set space before to 0
set space after to 0
set line spacing rule to line space single
end tell
end tell
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Hello guys I want to convert my non delimited file into a delimited file
Example of the file is as follows.
Name. CIF Address line 1 State Phn Address line 2 Country Billing Address line 3
Alex. 44A. Biston NJ 25478163 4th,floor XY USA 55/2018 kenning
And so on all the data are in this format.
First three lines are metadata and then the data.
How can I make it delimited in proper format using logic.
There are two parts in the problem:
how to find the column widths
how to split each line into fields and output a new line with delimiters
I could not propose an automated solution for the first one, because (not knowing anything about the metadata format), there is no clear way to find where one column ends and the next one begins. Some of the column headings contain multiple space-separated words and space is also used as a separator between the headings (and apparently one cannot use the rule "more than one space means the end of a heading name" because there's only one space between "Address line 2" and "Country" - and they're clearly separate columns. Clearly, finding the correct column widths requires understanding English and this is not something that you can write a program for.
For the second problem, things are much easier - once you have the column positions. If you figure the column positions manually (or programmatically, if you know something about the metadata that I don't - and you have a simple method for finding what's a column heading), then a program written in AWK can do this, for example:
cols="8,15,32,40,53,66,83,105"
awk_prog='BEGIN {
nt=split(cols,tabs,",")
delim=","
ORS=""
}
{ o=1 ;
for (i in tabs) { t=tabs[i] ; f=substr($0,o,t-o); sub(" *$","",f) ; print f
delim ; o=t } ;
print substr($0, o) "\n"
}'
awk -v cols="$cols" "$awk_prog" input_file
NOTE that the above program does not deal correctly with the case when the separator character (e.g. ",") appears inside the data. If you decide to use this as-is, be sure to use a separator that is not present in the input data. It may be better to modify the code to escape any separator characters found in the input data (there are different ways to do this - depends on what you plan to feed the output file to).
I need to update a bilingual dictionary written in Writer by first parsing all entries into their parts e.g.
main word (font 1, bold)
foreign equivalent transliterated (font 1, italic)
foreign equivalent (font 2, bold)
part of speech (font 1, italic)
Each line of the document is the main word followed by the parts listed above, each separated by a space or punctuation.
I need to automate the process of walking through the whole file, line by line, and place a delimiter between each part, ignoring spaces and punctuation, so I can mass import it into a Calc file. In other words, "each part" is a sequence of character (ignoring spaces and punctuation) that have the same font AND font-style.
I have tried the standard Search&Replace feature, and AltSearch extension, but neither are able to complete the task. The main problem is I am not able to write a search query that says:
Find: consecutive characters with the same font AND font_style, ignore spaces and punctuation
Replace: term found above + "delimiter"
Any suggestions how I can write a script for this, or if an existing tool can solve the problem?
Thanks!
Pseudo code for desired effect:
var delimiter = "|"
Go to beginning of document
While not end of document do:
var $currLine = get line from doc
var $currChar = get next character which is not space or punctuation;
var $font = currChar.font
var $font_style - currChar.font_style (e.g. bold, italic, normal)
While not end of line do:
$currChar = next character which is not space or punctuation;
if (currChar.font != $font || currChar.font_style != $font_style) { // font or style has changed
print $delimiter
$font = currChar.font
$font_style - currChar.font_style (e.g. bold, italic, normal)
}
end While
end While
Here are tips for each of the things your pseudocode does.
First, the easiest way to move line by line is with the TextViewCursor, although it is slow. Notice the XLineCursor section. For the while loop, oVC.goDown() will return false when the end of the document is reached. (oVC is our variable for the TextViewCursor).
Get each character by calling oVC.goRight(0, False) to deselect followed by oVC.goRight(1, True) to select. Then the selected value is obtained by oVC.getString(). To ignore space and punctuation, perhaps use python's isalnum() or the re module.
To determine the font of the character, call oVC.getPropertyValue(attr). Values for attr could simply be CharAutoStyleName and CharStyleName to check for any changes in formatting.
Or grab a list of specific properties such as 'CharFontFamily', 'CharFontFamilyAsian', 'CharFontFamilyComplex', 'CharFontPitch', 'CharFontPitchAsian' etc. Character properties are described at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Text/Formatting.
To insert the delimiter into the text: oVC.getText().insertString(oVC, "|", 0).
This python code from github shows how to do most of these things, although you'll need to read through it to find the relevant parts.
Alternatively, instead of using the LibreOffice API, unzip the .odt file and parse content.xml with a script.
Here is a simple lists where I like to change the numbers: the entries are as below and it got over 300 entries like it
tom112
smith113
harry114
linda115
cindy106
samantha147
It need to be changed to
tom212
smith213
harry214
...and so on.
Please assist using notepad++ regular expression.
Thanks.
Assuming it's just a matter of replacing a name followed by a number starting with 1 with the same number but starting with 2 instead:
Ctrl + H for search & replace.
Check Regular expression under Search Mode.
Next to Find what type or copy in ([a-zA-Z]+)1([0-9]+).
Next to Replace with type or copy in \12\2.
Click Replace All and that should do it.
Add any other characters that might appear in the name before the number inside the first set of brackets with a-zA-Z.
I would like to create a Sublime Text 2 Snippet that fills up the space before and after the Variable I type with spaces.
It should look like this:
===========================my_filename.js===========================
The Filename should be centered so the number of spaces before and after the Text have to match.
Also I need the overall column width of this line the stay the same. So when I add 2 Characters the number of spaces on each side gets reduced by one.
I think a sample for this would be:
spacesLeft = roundDown((columnWidth/2) - (textSize/2))
spacesRight = roundUp((columnWidth/2) - (textSize/2))
But since only RegEx is available in Sublime Snippets I don't see me able, to accomplish this task.
Could Vintagmode help me in any Way?
Thanks for your help!
Because snippets are essentially static, they wouldn't be able to help you in this case. However, you could create a plugin to do this relatively easily. Sublime Text uses python for its plugins. You can create one by going to Tools > New Plugin. ST2's API can be found here and is very impressive. Essentially, you'll want to store the current selection (your variable) using
sel_reg = self.view.sel()[0] # the current selection 'Region'
sel = self.view.substr(sel_reg) # the text within the 'Region'
Then generate the ='s
signs = ''
each_side = len(80 - len(sel))/2 # 80 is the standard window length,
# change this to what you want.
# Not sure about how to make it dynamic.
for x in xrange(each_side):
signs += '='
Then replace the current line (self.view.line(sel)) with signs + sel + signs.
I am using TeXnicCenter to edit a LaTeX document.
I now want to remove a certain tag (say, emph{blabla}} which occurs multiple times in my document , but not tag's content (so in this example, I want to remove all emphasization).
What is the easiest way to do so?
May also be using another program easily available on Windows 7.
Edit: In response to regex suggestions, it is important that it can deal with nested tags.
Edit 2: I really want to remove the tag from the text file, not just disable it.
Using a regular expression do something like s/\\emph\{([^\}]*)\}/\1/g. If you are not familiar with regular expressions this says:
s -- replace
/ -- begin match section
\\emph\{ -- match \emph{
( -- begin capture
[^\}]* -- match any characters except (meaning up until) a close brace because:
[] a group of characters
^ means not or "everything except"
\} -- the close brace
and * means 0 or more times
) -- end capture, because this is the first (in this case only) capture, it is number 1
\} -- match end brace
/ -- begin replace section
\1 -- replace with captured section number 1
/ -- end regular expression, begin extra flags
g -- global flag, meaning do this every time the match is found not just the first time
This is with Perl syntax, as that is what I am familiar with. The following perl "one-liners" will accomplish two tasks
perl -pe 's/\\emph\{([^\}]*)\}/\1/g' filename will "test" printing the file to the command line
perl -pi -e 's/\\emph\{([^\}]*)\}/\1/g' filename will change the file in place.
Similar commands may be available in your editor, but if not this will (should) work.
Crowley should have added this as an answer, but I will do that for him, if you replace all \emph{ with { you should be able to do this without disturbing the other content. It will still be in braces, but unless you have done some odd stuff it shouldn't matter.
The regex would be a simple s/\\emph\{/\{/g but the search and replace in your editor will do that one too.
Edit: Sorry, used the wrong brace in the regex, fixed now.
\renewcommand{\emph}[1]{#1}
any reasonably advanced editor should let you do a search/replace using regular expressions, replacing emph{bla} by bla etc.