Re: Mass conversion of items

[tomas]

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.
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> I have several org-mode files which have some specific formatting in
> individual items, specifically -
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> - --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?

I'm sure there are a couple of other questions I just forget now,
But we'll get there :)

Cheers
 - t

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