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Hoods7070 · 10-21-2013, 04:47 PM

FWIW, to capitalize the first word in a sentence (using Sigil) is quite straightforward. For the example below, I would have defined CSS classes "indentoff" (whatever) for the first sentence following a scene break, and "caps" to transform a string to capital letters. So:

Find:
<p class="indentoff">(.*?)[space]

will find the first text string after "indentoff" followed by a space. Note: [space] here represents a typed space; it is not part of the Regex!

Replace:
<p class="indentoff"><span class="caps">\1</span>[space]

10-21-2013, 04:47 PM	#7
Hoods7070 Groupie Posts: 159 Karma: 24430 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Australia Device: Nexus 7"	FWIW, to capitalize the first word in a sentence (using Sigil) is quite straightforward. For the example below, I would have defined CSS classes "indentoff" (whatever) for the first sentence following a scene break, and "caps" to transform a string to capital letters. So: Find: <p class="indentoff">(.*?)[space] will find the first text string after "indentoff" followed by a space. Note: [space] here represents a typed space; it is not part of the Regex! Replace: <p class="indentoff"><span class="caps">\1</span>[space]