Macro: convert format markers to formatted text

[NisusUser]

I don't yet have any meaningful skills with Nisus WP's macros. (I'm using 2.0.2). I am testing Transcriva (http://www.bartastechnologies.com/products/transcriva/), attempting to transcribe a recording. Transcriva does not support bold, italic, or underlined text. I'm thinking that if, when transcribing, I inserted markers around text I'd like formatted, then when I export .rtf files, I could have a macro in NWP that would apply the formatting and remove the markers. I am thinking of markers like

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[B]bold[/B] and [b]bold[/b],  [I]italics[/I] and [i]italics[/i], and [U]underline[/U],  [u]underline[/u]

How do I make a macro like this? Or does someone want to do one for me? Thanks!

[phspaelti]

Hello NisusUser.

writing such a macro is possible and is in fact quite easy. The key is to use "Find and Replace".

1. Open "Find and Replace"
2. Select "Using: PowerFind"
3. Enter your opening tag, i.e.,

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   "[b]"

4. From the gear menu choose Match > Capture(). The cursor should be between the two parts of the Capture()
5. From the gear menu choose Wild Card > AnyCharacter
6. From the gear menu choose Repeat > 1+ Shortest
7. Place the cursor at the end of the find expression and enter your closing tag, i.e.,

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   "[/b]"

8. Move to the Replace box and from the (replace) gear menu choose Match > Captured1
9. Select the replace expression and apply bold formatting as usual. The "Replace Attributes" box should become "clicked"

The find box should look like this:

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If you do "Replace All" now on a file with that kind of mark up you should have your mark up turned into formatting.
NB: Since "Ignore Case" is checked, this will work for tags with either "b" or "B" in any mixed combination. (This seems to be what you want.)

To get a macro, you do the following.

1. From the gear menu choose "Macroize…"

   

   choosing "Macroize…"

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2. In the macroize window specify "Replace All" and then do "Save as Macro"

   

   Save as "Replace all" macro

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Repeat the whole thing for the other tags. Make sure to apply the formatting you want -- and to clear out any formatting you don't want -- in the replace box.
You'll have to use copy/paste to combine the 3 macros into 1.

[phspaelti]

Anyhow here is a completed macro. (My version uses Powerfind Pro).

NisusUserTagToFormatting.nwm

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[NisusUser]

Thank you, Phillip! I'll try to work through the stuff you taught me, and see if I can learn how to do some of this for myself. I can foresee some other macros I need, so getting some skills in this area will be great. Thanks so much!