From: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@...>
Date: 2008-10-26T22:14:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Word + win32ole - how to find formatting of a word?

Mohit Sindhwani wrote:
> Axel Etzold wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>
> Hi Axel
>
> Thanks for replying!  Converting to HTML and working with that is my 
> last option actually.  In a well-written document, I found that using 
> Word to return style information about the paragraph is a lot less 
> work and relatively easy to work with.  I guess it's time to consider 
> your suggestion!
>
Actually, after digging around, I found that this gets me somewhere there:
words = doc.Words
words.each {|w|
  index += 1
  ft = w.Font.Name
  ftHash[ft] = 1
}

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
Mohit.
10/26/2008 | 9:14 PM.