macro to search and replace from a table?

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#1

I want to do a Romanization of a text. I know I can write a (lengthy!)
macro to look for each possible character and substitute accordingly,
but was wondering if it would be possible to have a macro refer to a
substitution table which could be changed from time to time and do a
substitution for all the characters in a text according to the table?

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
How about just changing fonts?  Can you find or create a font?  Perhaps take an existing one and substitute in odd characters here or there?

Are you thinking of doing a massive 1st letter in the first word of a new chapter, as they do in ancient manuscripts?  If so i think there is a fairly easy way to automate it in LibreOffice. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#3

I want to do a Romanization of a text.

What does that mean (sorry if that's a stupid question)?

Johnny Rosenberg

#4

> I want to do a Romanization of a text.

What does that mean (sorry if that's a stupid question)?

Google (or Bing) is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization