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Old 04-16-2011, 01:10 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by ted13b View Post
Is this caused by an improper file conversion? Any ideas for repairing it?
MS Word was probably used as part of the conversion process. The question marks are where there were optional hyphens (desirable places to split a word at the end of a line when using right justification). They should have been removed when using Word. Other applications may not recognize them and replace with question marks.
Confirmation that they are in fact replacements for optional hyphens would be that they always occur within words, never at start or end of a word.
As the ebook is already in epub format you will need to edit in something like Sigil.
You should be able to remove them in Sigil using Regex.
Go into Code View and select
Look in: All HTML Files.
And check Regular expression.
Code:
Find: (\w)\?(\w)
Replace: \1\2
This avoids removing legitimate question marks at the end of sentences.
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