I am working with snippets in Sublime Text 2/3 and would like to know if there is any way to remove spaces from mirrored fields.
An example:
Variable Description = "$1";
{$1}
Should become the following, if the user were to type in: Dinner Time
Variable Description = "Dinner Time";
{DinnerTime}
Haven't done to much with snippets before, but the substitution functionality may get you what you want. Take a look at http://docs.sublimetext.info/en/latest/extensibility/snippets.html#substitutions
If I had to guess though, it would be something like ${1/\s//g}
Related
I wanted to apply a style, strikethrough in this case, to the object's text, but I have encountered some problems for when the attribute contains an OLE Object.
Doing obj."Object Text" = richText obj."Object Text""" does not work as it takes away the OLE.
obj."Object Text" = richTextWithOle "{\\strike " o."Object Text" "}" does not work because richTextWithOle does not accept a string as parameter, only attributes.
obj."Object Text" = richText "{\\strike " o."Object Text" "}" stops Doors from responding, probably with no recover, as I waited like 5 minutes, from a small module with a single OLE, before force closing the instance.
Is this actually possible? If so, is there a way to achieve this?
Thank you for your answers.
First of all, I would take a small step back and have a look at what you may try to achieve in the end. If you want to mark requirements according to their state, I would suggest to use a separate attribute, which shows the actual validity of an object (e.g. "valid", "invalid", "tbd" or something along those lines) and not strike through the Object Text.
The other issue, that I would have is the "coarseness" of your requirements, which may result in a better separation between a textual requirement and a picture requirement or diagram, that illustrates something in more detail. Maybe the first step would be to clean up the requirements, i.e. to have them separated in a certain way, which also would make your strike-through issue more manageable.
Let me know, if that helped you. If not, maybe you actually have to build a DXL Script, which for example parses the content of an Object Text and goes through the rich text tags and handles them accordingly.
Problem
I'm writing an essay/documentation about an application. Within this doc there are a lot of code-words which I want to be highlighted using a different font. Currently I work with:
{\fontfamily{cmtt}\selectfont SOME-KEY-WORD}
Which is a bit of work to use every time.
Question
I'm looking for a way to declare a list of words to use a specific font within the text.
I know that I can use the listings package and define morekeywords which will be highlighted within the listings-environment but I need it in the text.
I thought of something like this:
\defineList{\fontfamily{cmtt}}{
SOME-KEY-WORD-1,
SOME-Key-word-2,
...
}
EDIT
I forgot to mention that I already tried something like:
\def\somekeyword{\fontfamily{cmtt}\selectfont some\_key\_word\normalfont}
which is a little bit better then the first attempt but I still need to use \somekeyword in the text.
EDIT 2
I came upon a workaround:
\newcommand{\cmtt}[1]{{\fontfamily{cmtt}\selectfont #1\normalfont}}
It's a little better then EDIT but still not the perfect solution.
Substitution every time a word occurs, without providing any clues to TeX, might be difficult and is beyond my skills (though I'd be interested to see someone come up with a solution).
But why not simply create a macro for each of those words?
\newcommand\somekeyword{\fontfamily{cmtt}\selectfont SOME-KEY-WORD}
Use like this:
Hello, \somekeyword{} is the magic word!
The trailing {} are unfortunately necessary to prevent eating the subsequent whitespace; even the built-in \LaTeX command requires them.
If you have very many of these words and are worried about maintainability, you can even create a macro to create the macros:
\newcommand\declareword[2][]{%
\expandafter\newcommand%
\csname\if\relax#1\relax#2\else#1\fi\endcsname%
{{\fontfamily{cmtt}\selectfont #2}}%
}
\declareword{oneword} % defines \oneword
\declareword{otherword} % defines \otherword
\declareword[urlspy]{urls.py} % defines \urlspy
...
The optional argument indicates the name of the command, in case the word itself contains characters like . which cannot be used in the name of a command.
I would like to build invoice text base to have following format:
https://gist.github.com/samnang/9d35a8622af5779a9228
But when I try to render as text format from my controller, then I find out it's very to control how it look because those text are dynamic like company name could be short or long. I don't want to other texts move position depend on something else because those format will be sent to print company to match print out paper.
Is there any examples, gems, or suggestions how to build invoice text base?
You are going to have to truncate some fields to fit into the defined tab area. If you allocate 20 characters of description data, then you need to only allow 20 characters on the output your_text[0..19]
I think working in text for this type of work is going to be overly complex, and you should look at converting the output to pdf to have more control. Take a look at https://github.com/prawnpdf/prawn
Here's my wild and whacky psuedo-code. Anyone know how to make this real?
Background:
This dynamic content comes from a ckeditor. And a lot of folks paste Microsoft Word content in it. No worries, if I just call the attribute untouched it loads pretty. But the catch is that I want it to be just 125 characters abbreviated. When I add truncation to it, then all of the Microsoft Word scripts start popping up. Then I added simple_format, and sanitize, and truncate, and even made my controller start spotting out specific variables that MS would make and gsub them out. But there's too many of them, and it seems like an awfully messy way to accomplish this. Thus so! Realizing that by itself, its clean. I thought, why not just slice it. However, the microsoft word text becomes blank but still holds its numbered position in the string. So I came up with this (probably awful) solution below.
It's in three steps.
When the text parses, it doesn't display any of the MSWord junk. But that text still holds a number position in a slice statement. So I want to use a regexp to find the first actual character.
Take that character and find out what its numbered position is in the total string.
Use a slice statement to cut it from.
def about_us_truncated
x = self.about_us.find.first(regExp representing first actual character)
x.charCount = y
self.about_us[y..125]
end
The only other idea i got, is a regex statement that allows it to explicitly slice only actual characters like so :
about_us([a-zA-Z][0..125]) , but that is definately not how it is written.
Here is some sample text of MS Word junk :
≪! [If Gte Mso 9]>≪Xml>≪Br /> ≪O:Office Document Settings>≪Br /> ≪O:Allow Png/>≪Br /> ≪/O:Off...
You haven't provided much information to go off of, but don't be too leery of trying to build this regex on your own before you seek help...
Take your sample text and paste it in Rubular in the test string area and start building your regex. It has a great quick reference at the bottom.
Stumbled across this
http://gist.github.com/139987
it looks like it requires the sanitize gem.
This is technically not a straight answer, but it seems like the best possible one you can find.
In order to prevent MS Word, you should be using CK Editor's built-in MS word sanitizer. This is because writing regex for it can be very complicated and you can very easily break tags in half and destroy your site with it.
What I did as a workaround, is I did a force paste as plain text in the CK Editor.
I want LaTeX to automatically replace strings like " a ", " s ", " z " with " a~", " s~", " z~", because they can't be at line end. Any suggestions?
For Czech typographic rules, there is a preprocessor called Vlna" by Petr Olšák - download . The set of (usually prepositions in czech) is customizable - so it might be usable for other languages as well.
You can use \StrSubstitute from xstring package.
e.g.
\StrSubstitute{change ME}{ ME}{d}
will convert change ME into changed.
Although, nesting is not possible, so to make another substitution you must use an intermediate variable in this way
\StrSubstitute{change ME}{ ME}{d}[\mystring]
\StrSubstitute{\mystring}{ed}{ing}
Finally, your solution would be
\usepackage{xstring}
\def\mystring{...source string here...}
\begin{document}
\StrSubstitute{\mystring}{ a }{a~{}}[\mystring]
\StrSubstitute{\mystring}{ s }{s~{}}[\mystring]
\StrSubstitute{\mystring}{ z }{z~{}}[\mystring]
\mystring
\end{document}
Note the use of the empty string {} to avoid the sequence ~}.
I'm afraid (to the best of my knowledge) this is basically impossible with LaTeX. A LuaTeX-based solution might be possible, though.
It's not actually clear to me, however, that " a ", for example, shouldn't appear at the end of a
line. Although I might be used to different typographic rules.
(Is there anything wrong with the line break in the last paragraph? :))
As far as I know there is no way to do this in LaTeX itself. I'd go for automating this with some external tools, as my typical setup involves a Makefile handling the LaTeX run by itself. This makes it rather easy to run tools like sed on the sources and do some replacements using regular expressions, and a simple rule would do this for your case.
If you use some LaTeX editor that does everything for you you should check the editors regular expression search and replace functionality.
Yes, this is the age old argument of data processing vs. data composition. We have always done these things in a pre-processor environment responsible for extracting the information from its source environment, SQL or plain-text, and created the contents of a \input(file.tex).
But yes, it is possible (TeX is after all a programming language) but you will have to become a wizard. Get the 4 volume set TeX in Practice by Stephan von Bechtolsheim.
The approach would be to begin an environment (execute a macro) whose ''argument'' was all text down to the end of the environment. Then just munge though the tokens fixing the ones you want.
Still, I don't think any of us are advocating this approach.
If you are using TeXmaker to write your LaTeX file, then you may click on the Edit button on the toolbar, then click on Replace.
A dialogue box will come up, and you can enter your strings one after the other.
You put the strings to be changed in the Find text input and what you want it to be changed to in the Replace text input.
You can also specify where you want the replacement to start from.
Click Find and Replace (or similiar) in the menu of your text editor and do it.