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Originally Posted by mrmikel
If you wait long enough and use the calibre editor, he will have a scripting function that should be able to do multiple tests for different cases. The rest of us know from bitter experience with Sigil, since it has no global undo, how hard it is to consider all cases with regex(regular expressions).
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Just my impression that Sigil is (was?) the more code-editing tool, while Calibre the more GUI.
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
You can use the simple version proposed earlier, but the only way to do it safely to use it one find at a time so you can see when it vacuums up more text than you intended.
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Since it's almost every paragraph in a book, that's a few thousand cases. One at a time isn't an option.
Anyway, I worked it out by first finding and fixing the spans I wanted to keep (as it happens, one) and then could delete the rest with a clear conscience.
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Originally Posted by mrmikel
Look up 2-3 posts above and the regex that eschwartz proposed is there showing find and replace.
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Duh. I thought it was some kind of software. I didn't register the names next to posts.