From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-10-25T23:34:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Word + win32ole - how to find formatting of a word?

> HI!  I'm trying to use Ruby and win32ole to parse a Word document.  So 
> far, I'm able to extract the style and text of each paragraph.  That 
> works great to convert it into individual divs (in the HTML CSS sense).
> 
> Now, inside the paragraphs, there are certain words that have special 
> formatting (for e.g. the name of a command which is in monospace) - I'm 
> trying to find how to extract those special cases.  Does anyone know how 
> to achieve that?
> 

Dear Mohit, 

you could  save the Word file as an html and then extract the relevant information...
I did that using OpenOffice and got a file containing the font information in the following form.


<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">A command in <FONT FACE="Linux Libertine">Linux
Libertine</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">A text in <FONT FACE="Bitstream Charter, serif">Bitstream
Charter</FONT></P>
</BODY>

If you read in the text of that file as a String, you can then find the relevant bits using regexps.

Best regards,

Axel

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