Re: TIP: semi-bulk changing the extension of file names in dired

On Di 17 Mär 2026 at 16:18, Pierre Rouleau wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 2:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Pierre Rouleau <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >  * Pierre Rouleau <[email protected]> [2026-03-16 15:35]:
>> >  > - Editing must be done with macOS Number, a non-free application
>> >  > that is (AFAIK) only available on macOS.
>> >
>> >  Oops.
>> >
>> > If anyone knows an open tool that can produce the same as what I have
>> done, please let me know.
>> > I searched and found nothing.
>> > The only way I found is what I used (macOS Number).
>> > The alternative would be to write my own tool.
>>
>> 1. It is unclear to me what exactly you are referring to, but
>> if you are asking how to generate a PDF file from a text
>> file,
>
> I am not asking how to generate a PDF file from text.
>
> I was trying to ask if anyone knew an open/free software tool that is
> expressive enough to generate the type of tabular text tables I have
> created using macOS Number.
> Those tables use icons, cell background colors, text fonts, text colors,
> line width and colors to express content in a compact form.
>
> Ideally that would be a tool for markup.
> The only one I can think of is TeX.
> But I'm not sure it's easy to create text in tables with the flexibility
> of organizing the text cells, and their background colors and text colors.

I can only think if rwi tools that produce beautiful tables and that is
TeX/Latex or ConTeXt and roff (groff, neatroff or heirloom).

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