Re: Playing with LaTeX

["Martin J. Osborne" osborne@xxxxxxxx]

Wow, that's very impressive, Carl! I've often wished that XyWrite's
search and replace functionality was better.


Thanks!
Martin

On 28/01/2016 10:43 PM, Carl Distefano wrote:
> I've been playing with the LaTeX document preparation system since the
> turn of the New Year. LaTeX source files are plain-text markup, so
> creating and editing them in XyWrite is natural. As an exercise, I
> decided to translate the documentation for a regular expression search-
> and-replace utility that I've been developing for Harry B. into a LaTeX
> document. The result is here:
>
> http://users.datarealm.com/ammaze/xfer/RCI.PDF
>
> At first I was dubious that this would be a suitable vehicle for Xy-
> related documentation, but in fact the output is quite readable and
> printable, with the professional look that is LaTeX's hallmark. Well,
> that's my biased view, anyway; I welcome your candid reactions.
>
> The software package described in the document seems stable and, if I
> do say so, exceptionally useful. Harry wanted to do search-and-replace
> operations involving intricate changes and moving around big blocks of
> text, and XyWrite's SEarch wildcards weren't up to the task. Regular
> expressions proved to be just the ticket. The package includes U2
> routines for XyWrite 4 and standalone Windows executables that work
> well with any version of XyWrite or Nota Bene. There's a download link
> and instructions in the PDF file if you'd like to try it.


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Martin J. Osborne
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