Re: Mass conversion of items

[Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>]

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Thanks for replying Tomas.
  <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote:
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>> I'm hoping that someone can help with this problem I have.
>> 
>> I have several org-mode files which have some specific formatting in
>> individual items, specifically -
>> 
>> - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> \uuline{foo}
>> - --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> This gives a double-underling of 'foo' when exported to latex and built
>> into a pdf file.
>> 
>> I'm now in the situation when the double underlining also needs to be
>> italicised, and in org-mode its showing as -
>> 
>> - --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> /\uuline{foo}/
>> - --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>   
>> This gives a double-underling and italicised of 'foo' when exported to
>> latex and built into a pdf file.
>> 
>> I would like to change about 150+ 'foos' and possibly using
>> 'replace-string' to do it. Also, 'foo' is lots of different words which
>> includes spaces between some of them. So how can I do it please?
>
> Hm. From your description it's unclear what exactly are you
> after. A couple of questions to try to zoom into that:
>
>  - You want to change the text in the curly braces, i.e. what
>    you call 'foo' above? Is this text always different? Is it
>    possible to state a rule describing how this text looks like
>    and by what you want to replace it? Or is the process going
>    to be manual?
>  - All that stuff: is it in one file or scattered across multiple
>    files?

Okay, being very specific, all of '\uuline{foo}' remains, but with a
forward slash at the beginning and end of '\uuline{foo}' to achieve this
'/\uuline{foo}/'

Thanks
  Sharon.    
>
> I'm sure there are a couple of other questions I just forget now,
> But we'll get there :)
>
> Cheers
>  - t
>
- -- 
Debian 10.5, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 27.1, org 9.3.7
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