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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [OT] Change text decorations in HTML (was Re: Automating an atypical
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Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:18:01 +0200
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On 13.07.2024 18:08, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm reformatting some HTML files containing chapters of the KJV Bible.
> My source follows the practice of italicizing some words.
> I find italics distracting.
> 
> These occurrences are consistently of the form
>    <span class='add'>arbitrary_text</span>

It just occurred to me that if you say the italic text entities are
the text objects in this span clause then the italic text-decoration
is likely defined as a CSS attribute of the respective CSS class.
That would in your example mean the class "add". Since you generally
don't seem to like italics it would be easier - and also the usual
way to tackle such a text - to change the single CSS attribute of
the class. You find it in the CSS section of the header file or in
a file with the CSS definition that is referenced in the HTML file.
Look out for a line like   "font-style: italic;   and remove that.

Janis

> 
> I wish to delete "<span class='add'>" and *ASSOCIATED* "</span>".
> Obviously it would not be wise to fully automate the action.
> I wish to find all occurrences of <span
> class='add'>arbitrary_text</span> an manually confirm the edit.
> 
> In general, is it feasible?
> Can KDE's Kate do it?
> 
> TIA