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Subject:Re: Converting paragraphs to a table in Flare From:Mike Stockman <mstockman -at- gmail -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L Writing <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:31:12 -0400
Yes. Yes it should. I plead "late in the day" for the mistake. Thanks for catching it.
In my defense, it worked fine when I tried it, and if I had copied and pasted the search string instead of retyping it as the opposite of the string I tested, it would have been fine.
Come to think of it, that's not much of a defense.
On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Combs, Richard wrote:
> Mike Stockman wrote:
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>> It's not quite instant, and it's Flare-irrelevant, but I would do it in the
>> source code, with three searches:
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>> 1) Search for <p> and replace it with <table><tr><td>
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>> 2) Search for </p> and replace it with </td></tr></table>
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>> 3) Search for <table>\n</table> and replace it with \n
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> Shouldn't step 3 be "Search for </table>\n<table> and replace it with \n"? Or am I missing something?
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> Richard G. Combs
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> Polycom, Inc.
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