cannot do find replace all on full stop.

cybmole · 07-23-2011, 11:13 AM

so I have a book conversion where there is no space between sentences, & the obvious fix is to find all full stops & replace with full stop + space.

to fix sentence end.Sentence start

needs to be done chapter by chapter in book view otherwise it will screw with HTML but I can accept that.

so I test by doing find replace one sentence at a time, which will take forever.

tell it to replace all within current file & sigil throws a hissy fit.

known bug or am I the lucky 1st person to try this ?

hissy fit> it puts up & fills a small progress batr that I've never seen before, then leaves a small empty window opn in fornt of main program window then goes unresponsive.

& Yes I've checked that find replace is set to normal, not to regex.

reloaded program & retried several times, no joy.

theducks · 07-23-2011, 11:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybmole

so I have a book conversion where there is no space between sentences, & the obvious fix is to find all full stops & replace with full stop + space.

to fix sentence end.Sentence start

needs to be done chapter by chapter in book view otherwise it will screw with HTML but I can accept that.

so I test by doing find replace one sentence at a time, which will take forever.

tell it to replace all within current file & sigil throws a hissy fit.

known bug or am I the lucky 1st person to try this ?

hissy fit> it puts up & fills a small progress batr that I've never seen before, then leaves a small empty window opn in fornt of main program window then goes unresponsive.

& Yes I've checked that find replace is set to normal, not to regex.

reloaded program & retried several times, no joy.

REGEX the dot is All. you need to escape it
Search: ([a-z])\.([a-z])
Replace: \1 \2 <there is a space between

Note Quote marks will mess this up
include the correct style of closing quote in the first box and Opening quote in the second box

cybmole · 07-23-2011, 01:41 PM

yes I know that regex stuff, but it's not relevent as I am using "normal" find & replace in book mode.

my claim is that is is not possible do find . and replace all with whatever. the find + replace all operation on that single punctuation character is crashing sigil

if i were to use your regex, the 2nd bracket should surely be ([A-Z]), and it would not work anyway because of the essential dots in meta headers like
[code]
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
[\code]

theducks · 07-23-2011, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybmole

yes I know that regex stuff, but it's not relevent as I am using "normal" find & replace in book mode.

my claim is that is is not possible do find . and replace all with whatever. the find + replace all operation on that single punctuation character is crashing sigil

if i were to use your regex, the 2nd bracket should surely be ([A-Z]), and it would not work anyway because of the essential dots in meta headers like
[code]
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
[\code]

Good catch

Be sure to tick "Maintain Case"

cybmole · 07-23-2011, 03:24 PM

straying off topic now but why do ebooks have/need lines like

Code:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

anyway ?

JSWolf · 07-23-2011, 03:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cybmole

straying off topic now but why do ebooks have/need lines like

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> anyway ?

It's part of the spec.

07-23-2011, 11:13 AM	#1
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	cannot do find replace all on full stop. so I have a book conversion where there is no space between sentences, & the obvious fix is to find all full stops & replace with full stop + space. to fix sentence end.Sentence start needs to be done chapter by chapter in book view otherwise it will screw with HTML but I can accept that. so I test by doing find replace one sentence at a time, which will take forever. tell it to replace all within current file & sigil throws a hissy fit. known bug or am I the lucky 1st person to try this ? hissy fit> it puts up & fills a small progress batr that I've never seen before, then leaves a small empty window opn in fornt of main program window then goes unresponsive. & Yes I've checked that find replace is set to normal, not to regex. reloaded program & retried several times, no joy.

07-23-2011, 03:24 PM	#5
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	straying off topic now but why do ebooks have/need lines like Code: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> anyway ? Last edited by Jellby; 07-24-2011 at 05:20 AM. Reason: Fixed markup

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07-23-2011, 01:41 PM	#3
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	yes I know that regex stuff, but it's not relevent as I am using "normal" find & replace in book mode. my claim is that is is not possible do find . and replace all with whatever. the find + replace all operation on that single punctuation character is crashing sigil if i were to use your regex, the 2nd bracket should surely be ([A-Z]), and it would not work anyway because of the essential dots in meta headers like [code] <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> [\code]

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