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Originally Posted by AlanHK
That will work for most cases. But not if a speech goes over several paragraphs. Then only the final para has a close quote.
In that case the <b> codes will overlap the <p> and you'll have a syntax error. |
If there isn't a < or a closing quote, mine won't match.
So if you had an extended speech, my Regex would see:
- a single opening quote
- keep going until it hits the < in </p>
- and jump out, failing to match since there's no ”
As noted, mine also wouldn't work with any sort of formatting inside the quotes (<i>, <b>, <span>, etc.). It's just a very dumb, very quick, Regex... not meant to cover
every case in the book, just the vast majority of "easy" cases.
Mine also wouldn't introduce any syntax errors... where a mass replace like you're suggesting has a high probability.
(ESPECIALLY since wrong/mismatched quotations are where a huge minority of typos are introduced, even in fully proofed/published books. [See discussion on Toxaris's EPUB Tools > Dialogue Check.])
Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanHK
That will also screw up with extended speech, but simpler to fix as you just have to add closing </b> to intermediates paras.
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I don't think so.
Let's say mine covers 95% of the normal cases, and misses the 5% extended speeches. But it replaces it in a single stroke.
Yours might cover "100%" of the cases, but then you have to spend time manually correcting 5%.