Finding Smart Tags

retiredbiker · 07-10-2018, 11:14 AM

I've recently been bumping into "smart tags" that usually mess up paragraph formatting - they seem to come from some editing in Word, somewhere, sometime. The Quality Check plug-in finds books that contain them. But once I have the book open in the Editor, the problem is finding them in the book.

They have all kinds of formats, apparently:

Code:

<address w:st="on" class="calibre10">
<street w:st="on">
<city w:st="on">
<postalcode w:st="on">
<state>

and on and on.

Short of making a list and just going after them one at a time, does anybody know of a way to find many of them at once? I've messed with regex for hours, but it is always too greedy to be useful.

Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 07-10-2018, 12:19 PM

Since they all have w:st in them, simply search for that.

theducks · 07-10-2018, 12:39 PM

I've been doing it the hard way

Kovid

retiredbiker · 07-10-2018, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Since they all have w:st in them, simply search for that.

Yeah, those are the easy ones. Actually, more have "st=" than "w:st", but there seem to be no end of variations. I'll just do saved searches for the more common varieties.

The one good thing is, a given book seems to use only one variety, so when you find the first one, you know mostly what to look for. Just takes a long time.

07-10-2018, 11:14 AM	#1
retiredbiker Evangelist Posts: 450 Karma: 3886916 Join Date: May 2013 Location: Ontario, Canada Device: Kindle KB, Oasis, Pop_Os!, Kobo Forma	Finding Smart Tags I've recently been bumping into "smart tags" that usually mess up paragraph formatting - they seem to come from some editing in Word, somewhere, sometime. The Quality Check plug-in finds books that contain them. But once I have the book open in the Editor, the problem is finding them in the book. They have all kinds of formats, apparently: Code: <address w:st="on" class="calibre10"> <street w:st="on"> <city w:st="on"> <postalcode w:st="on"> <state> and on and on. Short of making a list and just going after them one at a time, does anybody know of a way to find many of them at once? I've messed with regex for hours, but it is always too greedy to be useful. Thanks!

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07-10-2018, 12:19 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,345 Karma: 27182818 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Since they all have w:st in them, simply search for that.

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theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 31,047 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	I've been doing it the hard way Kovid

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