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#!/bin/ash
# abi-highlight-correction.sh # (Store in /opt/local/bin, or
# /root/my-applications/bin, or any "/bin" directory.)
#
# Required: 
# replaceit, by P.L. Daniels, at http://www.pldaniels.com/replaceit.
#
# Purpose: 
# correct the highlighting bug in abiword.
#
# Usage: 
# abi-highlight-correction.sh name-of-document
# 
# Note: 
# The user should be in the document's directory before running this script.
#
# Credits: 
# PuppyLinux forum members Smithy (for the 95 Kb test document) and greengeek 
# (for insight into the problem).
#
# Discussion thread: 
# http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=112434&start=15
#
# (c) musher0, 2018-03-04.
####

LC_ALL=C # For greater speed. We may need it on large documents.

A="$1"

cp -f "$A" "$A".original # We make a back-up beforehand. Remove if process successful.

n="`grep -c highlight0 "$A"`" # Gives us the number of occurrences 
############################### of the expression in the document.

for i in `seq $n`;do
	replaceit --input="$A" "highlight0" "highlight25"

# replaceit tends to replace one instance at a time. So, to make
# sure the expresion is entirely replaced, we do as many iterations
# as there are occurrences of the expression.

done

############################### 
# Time of process up to this point: ~ 0.83 second. (YMMV)
# Test doc was abiword_bug_test.rtf provided by PuppyLinux
# forum member Smithy.
############################### 

LC_ALL="" # Restores the original state of LC_ALL.

# Optional:
# exec abiword "$A"

### 30 ###

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./abi-highlight-correction.sh abiwordbugtest

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{\rtf1\ansi\deff0 {\fonttbl {\f0 Courier;}{\f1 ProFontWindows;}}
{\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;\red255\green0\blue0;\red255\green255\blue0;}
This line is font 0 which is courier\line
\f1
This line is font 1\line
\f0
This line is font 0 again\line
This line has a \cf2 red \cf1 word\line
\highlight3 while this line has a \cf2 red \cf1 word and is highlighted in yellow\highlight0\line
Finally, back to the default color.\line
}

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\highlight25 Finally, back to the default color.\line
}