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Originally Posted by edeniz
Is there any way to do a search and have the plugin disregard the difference between plain and typographic punctuation? Because that small but important difference is a hindrance to the "search epub" option of the plugin .... the apostrophes in the quote were typographic ones instead of the plain ones
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The following are some pragmatic suggestions now that you have pointed out the potential search problem, pending any changes that someone could make to the "search epub" plugin itself:
a) although not specifically what you are referring to, there is already a "plain text content" option that can be selected so that html format features such as italics etc are disregarded in the search, but that does not currently resolve the difference between plain and typographic punctuation; there is also an option to "ignore case" so that capitalization does not matter in the search,
b) when searching for specific text, perhaps choose sections of text that do not include punctuation such as apostrohes,
c) if it is necessary to use search text that does include quotation marks and/or apostrophes, then for each occurrence of such punctuation, maybe include specific alternatives in your search request in the form of [\'\’ \"\“\”] for each occurrence,
d) perhaps the plugin could have a seach option that ignores all punctuation and spaces and line breaks?