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Old 08-06-2017, 06:46 PM   #4
phossler
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@DD -- thanks for possible workaround. I'll think on it

@kovid -- Agree that this is the right way to do it

Quote:
<p>I lived in the seventeenth <span lang="fr">arrondissement</span>. The modernization project that had swept up the<span lang="fr"> Avenue Neuilly</span> and was extending the smart side of Paris to the west had by-passed the dingy <span lang="fr">Quartier des Ternes</span>. I walked as far as the <span lang="fr">Avenue de la Grande Armee</span>. The Arc was astraddle the <span lang="fr">Etoile</span> and the traffic was desperate to get there. Thousands of red lights twinkled like bloodshot stars in the warm mist of the exhaust fumes. It was a fine Paris evening, Gauloises and garlic sat lightly on the air, ...</p>

but lot of manual effort, and I'm not up to writing my own search/replace RE function

For a few foreign words, I could use [Insert Tag]



Side note about possible User Manual problem with [Insert Tag]

https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html

I created a <span lang="fr"> tag, but it took a while to remember how I had created the tags I currently have. There doesn't seem to be any information in the link about creating / inserting a tag.
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