Re: [Gnumed-devel] PythonUNO in libreoffice

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 08:58:58 PM Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 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=2303
> > > > 0
> > > 
> > > 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 ...
> 

Tell you what. That feature has been requested for years. If LO/OOo doesnt 
care we might think twice about checking out other software products. Maybe 
Abiword creators care.

Sebastian

> Karsten