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organized_chaos · 09-04-2011, 02:45 AM

I have a book I purchased from Amazon but there is one problem with it.

Every word that should be in italics is surrounded by _underscores_. I want to edit this book and change the underscores to italics but I'm not sure how. I removed the DRM from the book and converted it to HTMLZ format. My plan was to replace the _ with the html code for italics. The only thing is, one underscore needs to be <i> and the other needs to be </i>. I can replace all underscores with <i> or </i> using the Find and Replace option... but I can't do half and half like I need to.

How can I accomplish my goal without manually replacing everything one at a time?

09-04-2011, 02:45 AM	#1
organized_chaos Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: iPhone, Sony PSP, Android, Kindle	Need to change words surrounded by _ to italics I have a book I purchased from Amazon but there is one problem with it. Every word that should be in italics is surrounded by _underscores_. I want to edit this book and change the underscores to italics but I'm not sure how. I removed the DRM from the book and converted it to HTMLZ format. My plan was to replace the _ with the html code for italics. The only thing is, one underscore needs to be <i> and the other needs to be </i>. I can replace all underscores with <i> or </i> using the Find and Replace option... but I can't do half and half like I need to. How can I accomplish my goal without manually replacing everything one at a time?