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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited
Gryphon
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Aug-06-14, 09:11 AM (EDT) |
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6. "RE: New Bits"
In response to message #5
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>I don't know what text editor you work with, but Notepad++ on Windows >has usefully robust regex search capabilities. I believe that using a >search and replace with the regex option, using the text between the >double quotes, would have the desired effect: > >Find: "(\s)-(\w+)-(\s)" >Replace with: "\1<i>\2</i>\3" Hmm, I'll have to try that; I don't use that editor, but the one I do use does regular expressions too (which is how I was able to semi-automate paragraph wrapping, albeit only to a point). The emphasis thing is only one of several tedious things about reformatting a long plaintext piece (it's an involved enough process that even with better automation, repackaging the whole giant back catalog's simply not going to happen), but it would certainly help. Thanks. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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