RE: Is there a way to change condition tag's name?

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ananda,

A manual search and careful replace (with visual inspection to make sure 
the MIF isn't being trashed) should do it. Sometimes editing MIF, you need 
to delete sections. But in this case, just change the names of components, 
it seems pretty painless, if tedious. I've done this to change names of 
file components, and it's not that hard.

Again, I haven't tested this. But give it a go:

1. Create a simple Frame file from the Portrait template, add five or so 
paragraphs, and tag two of them (discontinuous) with the condition COMMENT, 
which is in the conditions list already.

2. Then save as MIF, open in Wordpad, search on COMMENT and change it to 
COMMENT1. Make sure to examine the context of each instance to make sure 
you're not touching something else.

3. Now resave the file, reopen in Frame, and check the result. It *should* 
work; if so, you'll have hands-on experience.

4. If it does work, repeat with a two-condition file with several tagged 
paragraphs, one of is tagged with both conditions. This lets you see the 
MIF that results. Again, should work.

5. Let us know how it goes. :)

Tom


Stevens, Ananda wrote:

> >> > Has anyone tried editing the MIF file to change all occurrences
> >> > of the Cond name from "string1" to "string2"?
> >>
> >> I haven't tried it either. You would still need "string3" as a temporary
> >> tag so you could keep the string1s separate from the string2s.
> >
> > No, you don't need an extra temporary name. If you have a MIF file,
> > you can use a text-processing command that changes string1 into string2,
> > and the other way around, without any risk of confusion.
> > As an example, on UNIX:
>
>Ah, but not all of us have that UNIX option. And even those of us who do
>have access to a UNIX box may not know things like sed or awk or whatever.
>
>How would you do the "straight swap" (i.e., without the third/temporary
>name) in a Wintel or Mac environment??
>
>Looking forward to my UNIX class next quarter,
>--Ananda Stevens
>ananda.stevens@windriver.com
>
>
>
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