[texhax] boldfacing words from a list

[Tom Schneider]

Chris:

> cause all words from a particular list, when appearing in a
> document, to be boldfaced.

One solution would be to process the document before running
it through LaTeX.  I would perhaps write a little Unix script:

cat pretext.tex |\
sed "s/bubba/\\textbf{bubba}/g" |\
sed "s/purple/\\textbf{purple}/g" |\
cat > posttext.tex
latex posttext.tex

You would have to make sure that words like 'a' which can be part
of other words do not get used incorrectly.  One way would be to 
demand spaces on both sides of the word:

sed "s/ bubba / \\textbf{bubba} /g" |\

but that requires a bit more work.

You could make a loop to do the above based on a list ...  Once you
start programming in Unix, lots of things become possible.  (Perl or
other languages are probably better than csh though.)

Tom

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