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Old 08-10-2014, 10:04 AM   #391
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Yes, I forgot some things, like the part where lookbehinds need to look behind. :o
ha, yes, wondered about that

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Replace. :D Keep in mind that \E -- end of modifier's action -- is not strictly necessary if the entire replacement is being flagged as lowercase:
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never really got the \E; thanks for the info

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You lost a space.
no, it's in the first capturing group. uppercase space == lowercase space, but obviously less readable :)

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Also, you imitated my mistake of offering an uppercasing solution (for letters that are already uppercase :rolleyes:) instead of lowercasing. I blame my dental surgery, what's your excuse? :D (You can blame it on me, I did trick you. :))
ehm, yes, i did, didn't i. i'll also blame your dental surgery, if you don't mind :)
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Old 08-10-2014, 10:09 AM   #392
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... the (?<=) and (?<!) hokum of lookbehinds was (and still is) always difficult for me to remember on the fly. I find it terribly unintuitive.
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it's taken me forever to be able to remember these. i don't even have a mnemonic for them because i can't find one that makes any sense.
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Old 08-10-2014, 10:21 AM   #393
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it's taken me forever to be able to remember these. i don't even have a mnemonic for them because i can't find one that makes any sense.
Oh, I thought it was pretty easy.

The less-than sign points the not/equals backward.
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Old 08-10-2014, 10:25 AM   #394
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For weekend reasons, I have the text to be treated not available here to test it, but there might some additional clarification be necessary.

Does your proposal not match any uppercase letter in the respective context?

The point is, that nouns in the german language have always been spelled uppercase (at the beginning of the word, of course), also today, and should remain. Whereas, in the former spelling, most of words representing objects or persons, such as pronouns, have been written uppercase, having to be written lowercase following the actual spelling grammar. So, in English it would be like this:

The black Panther was meant to attack Him immediately, but He jumped quickly aside beyond the Wall.

Thus, the "Panther" and the "Wall" should remain uppercase, but "He" and "Him" should turn lowercase.

I hope the problem I have became clearer.
I agree with mzmm -- matching only selected uppercased letters will quickly get hairy. I only tried for avoiding the ones that are immediately obvious as beginning a sentence. So my solution should match all those words (and replace them).

Given a definite exclusion list, you can definitely do it -- but it won't be very readable.
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Old 08-11-2014, 02:51 AM   #395
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there's going to be some issues with a regex that only catches pronouns, for a few reasons i think; one is that the formal Sie/Ihnen should remain uppercase, whereas sie (she) or ihnen (them) should be converted to lower case.

also, if one is referring to God, i'm uncertain as to weather that would constitute an uppercase Du, or lowercase du, so you may have to be aware of the context there.
Yes, with those exceptions you were dead-on, and I wouldn't even have had the courage to ask for the solution of them. Many thanks for your efforts, and, yes, today I'm going to try it. It would help me thus much if it worked, for the built-in spellcheck of word (or OO) won't consider those problems at all.

And I suppose it's sort of an ironic comment on the German grammar to write everything lowercase in English, isn't it?

Ah, and your example shows a guillemet, showing its peak to the left; that's indeed the French way to use them at the beginning of a direct speech (like a wrap). Here, it's more common to use (and I do it) a right-showing guillemet for the opening of a direct speech. So I have to replace it, I suppose?

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Old 08-11-2014, 03:51 AM   #396
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Hm, the replace entry "\1\L\2" (without quotes) shows: "Invalid option".

I used the Search and Replace function in Word, checking the Wildcard-option. Is there something wrong?

Also, if I only enter the "search" option, it shows "invalid sample comparison" (I translated the german expression and don't know if it's correct in Engish). Seems that using Regex in Word is very limited.

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Old 08-11-2014, 06:11 AM   #397
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The \L \U \E replacement variables aren't going to work in Word. It was probably assumed (given the subforum this is taking place in) that you were using Sigil's regex S&R feature.
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Old 08-11-2014, 09:04 AM   #398
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The \L \U \E replacement variables aren't going to work in Word. It was probably assumed (given the subforum this is taking place in) that you were using Sigil's regex S&R feature.
Precisely.

If you're going to be using regex you need to be using something with a proper regex engine, not word processors.
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Old 08-11-2014, 09:09 AM   #399
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... And I suppose it's sort of an ironic comment on the German grammar to write everything lowercase in English, isn't it?:rofl:
ha, i suppose so. wasn't this a trend at some point in Germany in the 90s though? to forgo uppercase nouns? maybe you could bring back the trend... :)

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Ah, and your example shows a guillemet, showing its peak to the left; that's indeed the French way to use them at the beginning of a direct speech (like a wrap). Here, it's more common to use (and I do it) a right-showing guillemet for the opening of a direct speech. So I have to replace it, I suppose?
ah ok, yes, just swap it out for »

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yep.
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Old 08-11-2014, 10:22 AM   #400
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@mzmm,
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Yes, yes, yes, you are completely right, and I even assumed the result beiing like this. I've got two reasons why I tried it in spite of it:
1. Provided I receive the texts I prepare not as html or even epub, I like to format them in Word or OpenOffice, simply because the possibilities of spellchecking there are, for my taste, generally more comfortable than in Sigil or Calibre. And, having them thus formatted, I convert them to epubs by using Toxaris', resp. Luke's tools, doing the fine-tuning with Sigil or Calibre.

2. (Ahem) At the place I have been this morning, I have no chance to use other programs than word for more refined Regex testing (I suppose you guess why). So I just ... tried it.

And once more, many, many thanks for your advice! Now that I'm at home and with Sigil available, your trick works like a charm! I think this will save me hours and hours of time in the future, for I'm trying to become specialized on German literature of the 19th century.
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Just to report:
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(?<![.!?])(\s»?)(Du|Dich|Dir|Er|Ihn|Ihm|Ihr|Es|Wir|Uns|Euch|Jeder|Jede|Alle|Alles)\b
matches uppercase pronouns also after sentences that end with closing guillemetsm such as:
blah.« Er ging ...

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(?<![.!?«])(\s»?)(Du|Dich|Dir|Er|Ihn|Ihm|Ihr|Es|Wir|Uns|Euch|Jeder|Jede|Alle|Alles)\b
I suppose ...

no, doesn't work, because there is a whitespace following the closing guillemet.

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Old 08-30-2014, 01:48 PM   #402
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I am reading a book that for some reason has separated (for example) Mr. Smith into two different paragraphs. I want to find these instances and correct them.

Example:

... Mr.</p>

<p class="indent">Smith

Also, Mrs. Ms. Miss. and Dr.

What regex would find all examples?

Sorry if this has already been answered.
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(Mr\.|Mrs\.|Miss|Ms\.|Dr\.|St\.)</p>\s+<p class="xxxx\d+">

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\1
Note you will have to change the xxxx to whatever your paragraph style and there is a space after the \1
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Note you will have to change the xxxx to whatever your paragraph style and there is a space after the \1
Thank you. I tried this command. I even put in a test Mr. at the end of a paragraph and it did not find anything. I am using Sigil v. 0.7.4
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You need to be in Regex mode in the search box for this to work.
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