Re: [Gnumed-devel] PythonUNO in libreoffice

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 09:52:16AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> On Friday, June 15, 2012 11:33:20 PM Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:45:39PM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > > I do not fully understand the technical problem.
> > 
> > I am not sure how to better explain it short of explaining
> > regular expressions. The thing is that LO simply does not
> > support a feature we need.
> > 
> > > Please look here if this is of any help:
> > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=23030
> > 
> > This post describes exactly the feature we are lacking.
> > 
> 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/garryknight/linux/ooregexp.html

Well, I have rewritten the regular expression which is used
to tell LO/OOo to look for inline placeholders from the
declaratively non-greedy

        r'\$<.+?>\$'

to the descriptively non-greedy (and slightly gary)

        r'\$<(?:(?!\$<).)+>\$'

(which works the same for LaTeX/Python & friends).

However, according to this page:

        http://help.libreoffice.org/Common/List_of_Regular_Expressions

LO ain't supporting that ("that" meaning lookahead
assertions) either :-(

Too bad, no more-than-one-per-line inline placeholders
for LibreOffice document templates still ...

Karsten
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