From: Axel Etzold <AEtzold@...>
Date: 2008-10-27T05:29:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Word + win32ole - how to find formatting of a word?


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> Datum: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:14:53 +0900
> Von: Mohit Sindhwani <mo_mail@onghu.com>
> An: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Betreff: 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.
> 
> 

Dear Mohit,

you're welcome :)
It's always nice to best answer one's own questions , isn't it ?  Thanks for the info !

Best regards,

Axel 

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