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Manichean · 01-27-2011, 11:19 AM

In that, case, here's my idea:
The assumption here is that each footnote is first marked by an asterisk where it should be in the text, followed by some text, followed by an asterisk and the actual footnote. I assume, as in your example, that the footnote itself contains no markup- you'd need to adapt accordingly if that varies for other books.
In the search & replace conversion setting, use the search pattern

Code:

(?s)\*(?P<text>[^*]*?)*(?P<footnote>[^<]*?)

and the replacement string

Code:

\g<footnote> \g<text>

The caveat is that I haven't tested it. When you test the regular expression in the wizard, the text from the first asterisk to the end of the footnote should be highlighted.

01-27-2011, 11:19 AM	#7
Manichean Wizard Posts: 3,130 Karma: 91256 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Device: Cybook Gen3	In that, case, here's my idea: The assumption here is that each footnote is first marked by an asterisk where it should be in the text, followed by some text, followed by an asterisk and the actual footnote. I assume, as in your example, that the footnote itself contains no markup- you'd need to adapt accordingly if that varies for other books. In the search & replace conversion setting, use the search pattern Code: (?s)\(?P<text>[^]?)(?P<footnote>[^<]*?) and the replacement string Code: \g<footnote> \g<text> The caveat is that I haven't tested it. When you test the regular expression in the wizard, the text from the first asterisk to the end of the footnote should be highlighted.