[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Woodssi

When reading, I absolutely hate punctuation marks that are italicised

When editing my books, is there a way to have Sigil search for
:-
<span class="italic"> any punctuation mark </span>

This is the regular expression I use:

Find: ([;’”,\)\]\.—])</span>
Replace: </span>\1

What it does is:

• Find any of the punctuation listed inside the parentheses (before the </span>)
• Shoves it OUTSIDE the </span>

So it would take something like this:

This is a <span class="italics">A Book Title.</span>
“What did you say to me you piece of <span class="italics">crap?”</span>

and converts it into:

This is a <span class="italics">A Book Title</span>.
“What did you say to me you piece of <span class="italics">crap</span>?”

You can also tweak it to whatever tags are needed, like one which will:

Find all Italics Ending Punctuation

Find: ([;’”,\)\]\.—])</i>
Replace: </i>\1

or:

Find all Italics Beginning Punctuation

Find: <i>([‘“\(—])
Replace: \1<i>

This will help correct things like:

<i>“Example Book</i> by First Last was the greatest book <em>ever!”</em>

by changing it to the correct:

“<i>Example Book</i> by First Last was the greatest book <em>ever</em>!”

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Side Note: For more info, see my posts in:

• 2021: "Italics and Bold"
• 2023: "Semantic markup question!"
  
  • Especially the "Do I Put Spaces Inside Italics/Emphasis?" + "Does Punctuation Go Inside the <i> or <em>?" parts.
    

If you need even more regex cleanup tips, see my posts in:

• 2022: "False paragraph breaks & RegEx"

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