Automatic text generation

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Paul Smith wrote:
> 
> Thanks again to all. I just want to create a small report on about 100
> assignments of my students. To speed up this task, I imagined that I
> could place a number for each item corresponding to the sub-phrase to
> be inserted in the report. Since many sub-phrases are frequent, I am
> looking for a solution to automate the procedure, thus increasing my
> productivity. After having thought a bit, I suspect that a spreadsheet
> will be enough, as Peter suggests.
> 
> Paul
> 
What you may want to do is create the report is a text editor, using
easy to remember abbreviations for each sub-phrase. Then create a
sed rule file that replaces each abbreviation with the sub-phrase.
(You can use the same file for more then one document.) You can then
run sed on your text document and have it replace the abbreviations.
I usually find it easier to remember a 3 letter abbreviation then a
number for a sub-phrase.

Sed rules:
s at abbreviation@sub-phrase at g

Sed command:
sed -f sed.rule abb-file > finished-file

Mikkel
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