From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Mon Jun 23 2003 - 14:12:19 EDT
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Is anybody out there doing any scripting of AbiWord (in either Python or
Perl)? (I think that's the right question -- I want to write some "macros"
to run in AbiWord, as can be done in, for example, Word -- things like
recording a series of keystrokes and then being able to play them back, but
perhaps a little more complicated as I'd want to do things like search and
replace and similar functions.)
Can anybody point me to some good resources? (I'd have to learn Perl or
Python, Perl could be a better choice because many of the things I want to do
involve search and replace using regular expressions (but, I'd rather learn
Python, I think).)
The reason for the inquiry is that I've managed to write some macros for Nedit
which can do folding of "raw" TWiki text files based on heading levels.
I am now certain that I (or somebody else ;-) could write macros for AbiWord
to do collapsible outlining (very analogous to folding) based on heading
levels. (Collapsible outlining on heading levels is what MS Word does.)
Plus, for anyone who desires an automated table of contents, if you collapse
the outline of an AbiWord document, you have the essentials of a (the?) table
of contents.
The Nedit macros are at http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/NmTWikiFold.
To avoid misleading anybody, I should say that:
* the macros are (currently) only a subset of what I eventually would like
to have (basically, they can fold the entire TWiki file to any heading level
(1 thru 6) or unfold it completely, I haven't written a macro to fold or
unfold a single heading or selection, or to do any promotion, demotion, or
"moving")
* the macros work fine without any modifications to Nedit, but the overall
user experience could be improved by changes to Nedit (like (maybe) adding a
toolbar, a specific folding view mode, etc.)
* also, they are of the "brute force" type, not very elegant
Randy Kramer
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