DataMystic

Hi Simon,

See my latest email.

David

Thanks, Simon.

When is TextPipe 10.8 due to be released?

David

The PCRE POSIX Character Class [[:punct:]] does not find punctuation marks for any non-Roman scripts. In UTF-8 mode, characters with values greater than 255 do not match any of the POSIX character classes. So for example, it does not find these punctuation marks in a UTF-8 file containing Farsi (Per...

Hi Simon, With TextPipe filters being stored in a binary format (.fll) this makes maintaining and sharing filters less than convenient in the world of Git based services and software providers such as GitHub , GitLab and BitBucket . Yes - one can Export a filter in various ways - but this is an extr...

Please review and respond.

Simon,

I have just emailed you the filter concerned.

David

Hi Simon, The input files match the filespec k:\*.usfm My subst drive k: contains 66 USFM files. The output path is a different subst drive v:\ This method used to work perfectly fine. It's recently stopped behaving. Files in which no replacement has occurred are now also being output. Best regards,...

Given that an underlying requirement for capturing text to a variable is to be under a Restrict to each line in turn , here's another useful tip. Suppose you wish to use the variable in a multiline part of the file being processed? All you have to do beforehand is to linearize those sections of the ...

The Replace filter is very versatile. Among the Action options when Perl pattern is used as the Find type are to Send variable N to subfilter where N = 1 to 9 in the Actions dropdown. This is the simplest method to use where the required subfilter is Capture text to a variable . Here's an example: R...

The filter Extract email addresses does not correctly extract addresses with the plus extension of the addressee that Google permits with gmail.com It should be enhanced to cope with addresses in the form person+anything@gmail.com Currently it fails badly and outputs anything@gmail.com Check the spe...

Hi Simon,

Every link in Help for this filter should be audited. Some filters go to the wrong help page.

Best regards,

David

Software bug : Output filter option no longer works as specified. Generate output files only if a change occurs now generates all files irrespective of whether there has been a change. This report is for TextPipe Standard version 10.7.2 This option used to work properly. Best regards, David

A very useful enhancement to TextPipe would be a filter called Remove all diacritics.

Assume that the input would be UTF-8.

How about this?

David

Also, there's a minor issue with the Help for Convert HTML/XML Entities to Text.

When this filter is selected in the filters list, and the context menu option Help for this filter is clicked, the wrong help page is displayed.

David