About selecting and highlighting

roger64 · 09-15-2020, 06:07 AM

Hi

Forgive me if there is a plain way of doing it. I did not find it...

Sometimes, when proofreading, we wish to highlight words, or punctuation signs scattered along the text files. It can be a list of suspicious (in the OCR sense) words, it can be anything.

For example, my last book had to be checked because I realized that after a poor scan, there were too many dots and not enough comas. If you are unable to highlight them, you'll lose both your sight and sanity trying to check every d... occurrence of these tiny signs.

So my question is: how can I select and highlight all the dots?

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2020, 07:23 AM

There's no such functionality, the best you can do is jump from one match to the next using the search. Or alternatively, use search and replace to surround every instance with tags it will then be pretty obvious in code view or if you want to see it in preview use or

roger64 · 09-15-2020, 08:21 AM

Thanks for your answer.

Maybe it would be useful to add such a functionality because I can see many ways how it could be used to edit ebooks....

BetterRed · 09-15-2020, 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by roger64

Thanks for your answer.

Maybe it would be useful to add such a functionality because I can see many ways how it could be used to edit ebooks....

↑ ↑ ↑ ✔

Not so much for punctuation as for 'suspicious' words, except I'd probably prefer to see them highlighted in Preview.

BR

kovidgoyal · 09-15-2020, 10:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BetterRed

↑ ↑ ↑ ✔

Not so much for punctuation as for 'suspicious' words, except I'd probably prefer to see them highlighted in Preview.

BR

Just use search/replace to wrap it in your own 
and once you are done with reviewing, use a search/replace to unwrap.

roger64 · 09-16-2020, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Just use search/replace to wrap it in your own 
and once you are done with reviewing, use a search/replace to unwrap.

Indeed, it's working fine for my question, thank you.

I guess if I wish to highlight a list of words, I would have to use a function?

kovidgoyal · 09-16-2020, 02:56 AM

No, you can have a single search expression match multiple words with the | operator.

mikapanja · 09-16-2020, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

No, you can have a single search expression match multiple words with the | operator.

But if you have a list of words and it finds the first one, will it even check for others?

kovidgoyal · 09-16-2020, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mikapanja

But if you have a list of words and it finds the first one, will it even check for others?

It will. When you search for anything, it doesnt find only one match of it, does it?

roger64 · 09-21-2020, 04:50 AM

Hi

I comeback to you on the dot question.

I tried to use a set of two regex, red+ and red-, the first one to highlight the dots, the second one to suppress all highlighting (see below). However, the first regex also highlights the dots in the <head> of the xhtml files which is unpleasant. Is there a way to avoid this side-effect?

searches
0
case_sensitive false
dot_all false
find "(\\.)"
mode "regex"
name "red+"
replace "\\1"
1
case_sensitive false
dot_all false
find "(.*?)"
mode "regex"
name "red-"
replace "\\1"
version 1

09-15-2020, 06:07 AM	#1
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,624 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	About selecting and highlighting Hi Forgive me if there is a plain way of doing it. I did not find it... Sometimes, when proofreading, we wish to highlight words, or punctuation signs scattered along the text files. It can be a list of suspicious (in the OCR sense) words, it can be anything. For example, my last book had to be checked because I realized that after a poor scan, there were too many dots and not enough comas. If you are unable to highlight them, you'll lose both your sight and sanity trying to check every d... occurrence of these tiny signs. So my question is: how can I select and highlight all the dots?

09-15-2020, 07:23 AM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,311 Karma: 27111242 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	There's no such functionality, the best you can do is jump from one match to the next using the search. Or alternatively, use search and replace to surround every instance with <b> tags it will then be pretty obvious in code view or if you want to see it in preview use <u> or <span style="background-color:red">

09-21-2020, 04:50 AM	#10
roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,624 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Hi I comeback to you on the dot question. I tried to use a set of two regex, red+ and red-, the first one to highlight the dots, the second one to suppress all highlighting (see below). However, the first regex also highlights the dots in the <head> of the xhtml files which is unpleasant. Is there a way to avoid this side-effect? searches 0 case_sensitive false dot_all false find "(\\.)" mode "regex" name "red+" replace "<span style=\"background: red\">\\1</span>" 1 case_sensitive false dot_all false find "<span style=\"background: red\">(.*?)</span>" mode "regex" name "red-" replace "\\1" version 1

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roger64 Wizard Posts: 2,624 Karma: 3120635 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kindle PW3 (wifi)	Thanks for your answer. Maybe it would be useful to add such a functionality because I can see many ways how it could be used to edit ebooks....

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