Atlantis Word Processor Forum

[andygrunt]

There's something I've found I want to do in Atlantis on several occasions but I'm sure it's not possible. However, I thought I'd check just in case and also perhaps it'll be something that's worth considering as a future addition. Here's what I wanted to do:

I was writing something that was to be later inserted into a Wordpress webpage and I wanted all the headings of a particular type to appear bold. This is easy to do - paste the text into Wordpress, select the words and press the 'Bold' button. Wordpress then adds <strong> before the selection and </strong> after it (much like adding a post on this forum). This is simple to do but a pain as I have to manually go through the whole text doing this to each heading. So, you might get something like the following:

<strong>This is a heading</strong>
Blah, blah blah.

<strong>This is another heading</strong>
Blah, blah blah.

I'd also need to something similar to get italic or underlined text.


So, in Atlantis I'm after a way to define certain types of text (in this case, text using a particular heading style but it could be any criteria - font, colour, size, whatever) and add certain text before it and certain (different) text after it. Basically, it's an advanced search and replace, or perhaps it would be better called 'select and amend'.

As I said, I'm pretty sure it's not currently possible (although I'd be happy to be proved wrong) but perhaps it's useful enough and flexible enough to be a future feature?

[admin]

It is not currently possible. It requires support for "regular expressions" (or "wildcard search"). Atlantis will support "wildcard search" in a not too distant future.

[andygrunt]

Sounds promising - thanks.