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Old 12-08-2018, 03:47 PM   #1
zoechow
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copy text in brackets to margins?

I am converting an EPUB to PDF. The text has line numbers within it, enclosed in square brackets. Here is an example:
numbers must rather [35] be what Plato used to say, and there must be a first ... the other hand one supposes this, many impossible results, as we have said,
follow. But either this or the other must be [1083b1] the case, so that
Is it possible, while doing the conversion, to get Calibre to make a copy of the line numbers, and place these numbers in the margins. So to best approximation in text editor we might get something like this:

[35] be what Plato used to say, and there must be a first ...
the other hand one supposes this, many impossible results...
[1083b1] the blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah


Thanks in advance!


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