remove several \textit{...} (LaTeX)

Hello!

I would like to remove several \textit{...} in a LaTeX-document but want
to keep what's in the brackets every time.

Thanks for help,
D.Stender (Germany)

uzstzm@uni-bonn.de (D.Stender) writes:

> Hello!
>
> I would like to remove several \textit{...} in a LaTeX-document but want
> to keep what's in the brackets every time.

search for: "\textit", replace with ""?
(OffT: sed -e 's/\textit//g' or somesuch, or any editor)

I can't think of a situation where \textit can/should be used and
extra {} would be harmful.

Ulrich
--
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BEGIN { target = "\\\\textit{[^}]*}" }

{ while ( match($0, target) ) {
replacement = substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH)
gsub(/.*{|}/, "", replacement)
sub( target, replacement )
}
print
}