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cybmole · 10-18-2010, 02:21 AM

I'm hoping to learn how to fix up various small annoyances in conversions via regex & have some related questions.

1. em-dash, en-dash - to mess with these, how do I type the characters into the regex i.e. is there a way to generate an emdash or endash with the keyboard ?

2. find + replace syntax: I see lots of helpful examples for removing stuff with regex but what is the generic construction of a find / replace all command

3. as a specific, I could fix up one book if I could replace all "?" with em dash, EXCEPT for those ? which are followed by a close speech quote. this would take 3 passes in word: 1. change all ?" to , say, QMQM". 2 change all "?" to em dash. 3 change all QMQM back to ?"

PS following a link to here https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Special_characters
I read that em-dash, en-dash are NOT supported on Kindle, but it does not say what would be displayed if one was included in a .mobi file - I assume that the .mobi spec does support them ?

10-18-2010, 02:21 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	regex for character replacement, em-dash questions I'm hoping to learn how to fix up various small annoyances in conversions via regex & have some related questions. 1. em-dash, en-dash - to mess with these, how do I type the characters into the regex i.e. is there a way to generate an emdash or endash with the keyboard ? 2. find + replace syntax: I see lots of helpful examples for removing stuff with regex but what is the generic construction of a find / replace all command 3. as a specific, I could fix up one book if I could replace all "?" with em dash, EXCEPT for those ? which are followed by a close speech quote. this would take 3 passes in word: 1. change all ?" to , say, QMQM". 2 change all "?" to em dash. 3 change all QMQM back to ?" PS following a link to here https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Special_characters I read that em-dash, en-dash are NOT supported on Kindle, but it does not say what would be displayed if one was included in a .mobi file - I assume that the .mobi spec does support them ? Last edited by cybmole; 10-18-2010 at 02:29 AM.