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Old 11-11-2011, 12:22 AM   #8
andrewburt
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This is wonderful. Thank you. I wish I had had it 2 months ago when I nuked a large novel with tons of italics.

Is there anyway you can get it to keep the bold and underlined words too?
My pleasure, and I'll see if bold/underlined can fit in. Hmm. The thing is that for in-house use, we almost always want to remove those specifically. (Since bold and underlining come from OCRing as artefacts that drive us nuts. Or if it's a manuscript we're working with, then we convert underlines to real italics; net result still being no underlines in place.) Most of the texts we do don't have any intentional final-format underlining or bolding in them, so if we did encounter that we'd just add those back by hand in those rare cases. I understand where it'd be useful to others, though, so I'll see what I can do.

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