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Just to confirm it works perfectly, thanks Philip!

So an improved expression will look like this:
CODE: SELECT ALL

Code: Select all

Find and Replace '\<p\. (?=\d)', 'p. ', 'Ea-i'

Obviously with the correct types of spaces.

Thanks Philip! -- Sorry, the term was not idiomatic. "Ponctuation double" in French means any punctuation made out of 2 elements (;:!?) and there should be a non-breaking space before that. -- I"ll try your command for the "p. " -- For the two steps, this was to clean things...

I know it might sound too basic for some users but I decided to check the present state of the macro. It's not pretty but it does the required work, if you see some way to make it more compact, don't hesitate. When we work on texts where a part is in good shape and some other part contains errors, I...

Thanks Cliff! Most helpful. I have made a new macro re-using the clean punctuation macro (and removing the lines that introduce some errors, eg remove spaces before any punctuation), and adding incrementally my Find and Replace. In fact, it's extremely useful to understand the syntax (for new users,...

Dear All I would like to build a macro to cleanup my text, especially when I've imported some paragraphs where the typography isn't right in French. There might be one on this forum, but in that case I have missed it and would be grateful for any suggestion. Basically, in order to avoid creating dou...

Thanks a lot for your time and advice Þorvarður! Having this kind of feedback is precious You are absolutely right about Mellel, that's the reason I've re-routed my work on Nisus (which I prefer in terms of ergonomy and, now, for a lot of reasons). I've tried your suggestions in a document and it se...

Hello I have Nisus Pro, and am very glad with it. It is very robust, well integrated with bookends, which is important to me, and the search and replace syntax is extremely powerful. Comments and indexing options are great too. I had a question : before embarking on my next manuscript (around 100k w...