Re: Converting paragraphs to a table in Flare

[Mike Stockman <mstockman -at- gmail -dot- com>]

It's not quite instant, and it's Flare-irrelevant, but I would do it in the source code, with three searches:

1) Search for <p> and replace it with <table><tr><td>

2) Search for </p> and replace it with </td></tr></table>

3) Search for <table>\n</table> and replace it with \n

Done.

The only trick is that your text editor needs to have regular expressions to replace \n (newlines).

Also, you don't end up with a perfectly correct table... there's no summary, and you're not including a heading (or labeling thead and tbody for that matter). But I leave that as an exercise for the reader. :-)

Mike

On Jun 21, 2010, at 3:58 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:

> Anybody do that? 
> 
> 
> The text is from a command-line utility. 297 paragraphs... this week.
> I paste those into a Flare topic. They're all <p> </p>.
> 
> How to instantly make them become a single-column 297-row table?
> 
> Or, how to create a 297-row table and paste the 297 paragraphs 
> all at once, so they each fall into a separate cell/row?
> Copying the paras into the buffer, then selecting the table 
> and pasting ... doesn't have that result (though it would/does  
> in a word processor).  
> 
> It's easy enough in Word or OOo, but I want to avoid importing 
> formatted stuff from another app into Help - it always comes 
> back to haunt me somehow.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin McLauchlan
> Senior Technical Writer
> SafeNet, Inc.
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