Re^2: Printing Labels (updates 2)

This works reasonably well. I've done something similar (Excel / OOffice spreadsheet) pulling the XML guts out, turning that into a TToolkit input file with a companion processing script. Users would run the template through the script with a CSV file of the actual data to create their report which the processor proceeds to zip the substituted template file back into a new zip / sxc / xlsx output file as the finished product.

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Re^3: Printing Labels (UPDATES 1) by LanX (Saint) on Oct 08, 2024 at 17:08 UTC
My intention was to have a stable process were the "template designer" is using word/libreoffice/etc as a visual editor. I just tested my "concept" with LibreOffice, it's doing the job, except.... ... sometimes intermittent `<w:...>` tags are injected into the placeholder, especially where the underscores are. I have to manually mark them and choose "remove formatting" from the menu. I suppose it's word-break information. (I can of course also correct it on the source level.) So a manual correction is still necessary, if the translator throws errors. HTH :) Disclaimer: didn't try any other apps like MS Word or Google docs. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) see Wikisyntax for the Monastery} UPDATE here a sample of phantom tags included for a placeholder `<___TEST___>` `<</w:t> </w:r> <w:r> <w:rPr> </w:rPr> <w:t> ___TEST___>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: Printing Labels (UPDATES 1)
by LanX (Saint) on Oct 08, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

I just tested my "concept" with LibreOffice, it's doing the job, except....

... sometimes intermittent <w:...> tags are injected into the placeholder, especially where the underscores are.

I have to manually mark them and choose "remove formatting" from the menu. I suppose it's word-break information.

(I can of course also correct it on the source level.)

So a manual correction is still necessary, if the translator throws errors.

HTH :)

Disclaimer: didn't try any other apps like MS Word or Google docs.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

UPDATE

here a sample of phantom tags included for a placeholder <___TEST___>

&lt;</w:t>
</w:r>
<w:r>
<w:rPr>
</w:rPr>
<w:t>
___TEST___&gt;
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