Search and Replace

SOThunder · 02-14-2012, 05:07 PM

I've been using Calibre for a while now and I really like it, but I seem to be lost when it comes to using this feature.
I recently tried to convert a book, it seemed to work alright but the punctuation got lost some how. Instead of " and " I get \a147 and \a146 and other things similar to that. I've tried to use the search and replace to change \a147 to a " (quotation mark) but it dosen't seem to do anything. Any know what I'm doing wrong?

BookJunkieLI · 02-18-2012, 12:55 PM

I think you want to ask this question over in the Conversion forum rather than here. Based on what I know, which I admit isn't much, I think you want to be using something like the Tweak EPUB plugin rather than the Search And Replace function. I think the S&R is more for editing Metadata type things than the contents of your actual books.

idea00 · 04-29-2012, 08:29 AM

This reply is a bit late but:

The characters are PML characters which can be replaced with the html char code equivalent (see link)
Search/Replace in calibre works fine but the search is a regular expression so you actually need to use \\a147 (the backslash is a escape special character and needs to be escaped with a backslash)

02-14-2012, 05:07 PM	#1
SOThunder Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T1	Search and Replace I've been using Calibre for a while now and I really like it, but I seem to be lost when it comes to using this feature. I recently tried to convert a book, it seemed to work alright but the punctuation got lost some how. Instead of " and " I get \a147 and \a146 and other things similar to that. I've tried to use the search and replace to change \a147 to a " (quotation mark) but it dosen't seem to do anything. Any know what I'm doing wrong?

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02-18-2012, 12:55 PM	#2
BookJunkieLI Evangelist Posts: 435 Karma: 572984 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Long Island Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kindle 4, Nook Gl4, Nook STR, REB 1100, Ebookwise 1500,	I think you want to ask this question over in the Conversion forum rather than here. Based on what I know, which I admit isn't much, I think you want to be using something like the Tweak EPUB plugin rather than the Search And Replace function. I think the S&R is more for editing Metadata type things than the contents of your actual books.

04-29-2012, 08:29 AM	#3
idea00 Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 684 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: android	This reply is a bit late but: The characters are PML characters which can be replaced with the html char code equivalent (see link) Search/Replace in calibre works fine but the search is a regular expression so you actually need to use \\a147 (the backslash is a escape special character and needs to be escaped with a backslash)

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