need editor for inserting css tags

[Pete]

Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor? Any advice appreciated!

- Pete

[Andy Dingley]

On 5 Jun 2006 14:56:09 -0700, "Pete" <si*****@msu.edu> wrote:

Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor?

I do such tasks with a few lines of Perl or Python. Rather than "search
and replace" I do it by "counting" paragraphs. First one's a header,
then a subtitle, then a date, then anything else is body text.

[Pete]

Thanks for the reply. I am a long-time Perl person so I will see if I
can use it to put my custom selector class tags around fragments of
text that are not necessarily blocks. I suppose another possibility
would be to use VB to detect selected text and insert the custom tags
in the text as a WORD doc. The goal is to have every part of the text
be inside one or more css selector classes that are really pre-XML
functional descriptors.

- Pete

Andy Dingley wrote:

On 5 Jun 2006 14:56:09 -0700, "Pete" <si*****@msu.edu> wrote:

Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor?

I do such tasks with a few lines of Perl or Python. Rather than "search
and replace" I do it by "counting" paragraphs. First one's a header,
then a subtitle, then a date, then anything else is body text.

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode, <11*********************@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups. com>,
the lovely and talented Pete broadcast on
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:

Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor? Any advice appreciated!

Tons of text editors can do this if you know how to write or record macros
for them. I use JOE which has a faily straight forward macro language (and
what you want to do does not require some of the less-straight-forward
advanced features). Recent versions of JOE allow you dump recorded macros,
so that you can record what you want to do once, dump the recorded macro,
and then copy that to a key mapping, so you never have to actually
understand what you are doing. It seems a tall order for a one-time task,
but mastering the macro language of some text editor is a skill that will
repay you many times.

--
Lars Eighner http://larseighner.com/ http:/myspace.com/larseighner
I hate laundry month.

[Martin Eyles]

"Pete" <si*****@msu.edu> wrote in message
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Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor? Any advice appreciated!

- Pete

I often use winedt, and this can do search and replace with regular
expressions.

[VidTheKid]

Pete wrote:

Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor? Any advice appreciated!

Other responses have included alternative solutions and existing
programs that kind-of do this. Still, I find myself going through a
process like this from time to time, and a specialized text editor
would be more useful than extensive use of copy+paste, which is my
current solution. A single F# keypress is a lot less fatiguing than a
Ctrl+V combination when repeated dozens of times. Perhaps I'll put
something together in VB in the near future.

--
Vid the Kid

[Stephen Poley]

On 5 Jun 2006 14:56:09 -0700, "Pete" <si*****@msu.edu> wrote:

Hi - I have 200 past meeting minutes to convert from text to html with
an already settled-on tested css stylesheet. So all I need is an
editor where I can highlight text and maybe hit the right f key to
insert the right tags at the two ends of the highlighted text. Is
there such an editor? Any advice appreciated!

Probably numerous editors can do this. I use NoteTab for this myself.

If you have to do a lot of documents, maybe you could use an editor such
as NoteTab to do the headings and lists manually, and then a bit of Perl
to put everything else in paragraphs. It depends rather on how
consistently the original documents are formatted.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/