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[Tomasz Muras <nexor1984@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Murat,

Thanks for sharing, I think it will be useful for me for the very same
thing. I've linked to your plugin from
https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Plugins .

cheers,
Tomek

On 9 August 2015 at 13:39, Murat G <muratg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just released the plugin. You can find it here:
> https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Text2Tags-plugin
>
> Direct link:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1482984/+attachment/4441718/+files/Text2Tags.py
>
> Regards,
> Murat
>
>
>
> ______
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I’m about to release a new plugin which helps formatting text to tags.
>
>
>
> The idea to this plugin was born out of the need that whenever I have a
> meeting with a large number
>
> of participants, it was quite an effort to add all participants as tags
> (people tag) into my meeting notes,
>
> even by using my auto completion plugin ;)
>
>
>
> Usually, I open the MS Outlook invitation, switch to scheduling assistant
> and then copy the list of all attendees into the zim page.
>
>
>
> Then I get such a list:
>
> Güven, Ugur Murat;Doe, John;Doe, Jane; and many more;
>
>
>
> As my people tags have this pattern @LastnameFirstname I was able to do a
> quick hack by using the linesorting plugin
>
> (thanks to Norfcran for the plugin), which worked quite ok.
>
>
>
> As you can see, even my full name does not fit into that pattern, as I
> have a middle name ;). In addition, some entries had additional information
>
> in brackets next to the name -> Doe, John (Whatever).
>
>
>
> Then I thought: ‘What if others have other data, where the delimiter is
> not semicolon?’
>
>
>
> Long story short:
>
>
>
> ·         You are able to select the delimiter
>
> ·         Set the source and the destination pattern
>
> ·         Set filters to remove anything from the tags
>
> ·         compare the data with existing tags and select similar instead
>
>
>
> The current implementation allows this:
>
>
>
> Source pattern: %Ln%, %Fn%, %Mn%                  (-> free to use any
> delimiter, free to use any text in between %%, pattern needs to reflect the
> source data’s pattern)
>
> Target pattern: %Ln%%Fn%                                      (-> free to
> use order, free to use any delimiter which Zim allows, text used between %%
> needs to be the same as in source pattern)
>
>
>
> As I’m in the final stage, I’d like to know what the pattern of your tags
> look like?
>
> Will this implementation fit to your pattern of tags?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Murat
>
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