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Re: Remove occurences of <X> from file



Stefan Baums <sb51@soas.ac.uk> writes:

> --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I use Emacs/MULE and write the following document:
> 
>    Hall=F6 KuryLowicz
> 
> where (this is the important bit!) the L of this iso-latin-1 email is
> actually the Polish l (l with a bar through it).
> 
> Then I save it in the encoding "emacs-mule". According to less in an
> iso-latin-1 terminal the file looks like:
> 
>    Hall<82>=F6 Kury<82>=B3owicz
> 

> Question: Can anyone clue me how to write a small script to remove the "<82=
> >"
> characters from the file? (The point is to then feed it to LaTeX and
> \inputencoding.)

First have a look what less [+-]r says. Use something like:

cat <your file> | perl -e ' while(<>){ s/\x82//g; print; } ' > cleaned.file

(sorry I don't have my perl notes handy).

I guess there is a way to trick latex to display a \lbar (see \hbar). 

HTH,

Jens

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