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Andrew Savikas 

Andrew Savikas works in the O'Reilly Tools Group, where he helps the production department turn manuscripts into O'Reilly books.

Andrew Savikas works in the O'Reilly Tools Group, where he helps the production department turn manuscripts into O'Reilly books. He developed and maintains the custom Word template and VBA macros used by all the O'Reilly authors who don't insist on writing in POD. Except for the ones who insist on writing in XML. Or Troff.

Andrew also works with FrameMaker, FrameScript, InDesign, DocBook XML, Perl, Python, sed, and whatever else he finds lying around the office. He has a degree in communications from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and lives in Boston with his wife, Audrey, who loves to see her name in print.


Manipulating Word Documents with Perl
Unix hackers love their text editors for plain-text manipulatey goodness--especially Emacs and Vim with their wonderful extension languages (and sometimes Perl bindings). Don't fret, defenestrators-to-be. Andrew Savikas demonstrates how to use Perl for your string-wrangling when you have to suffer through using Word. [May 26, 2005]

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