Replacing markdown "*" with italics

[taratears]

I have a fanfiction series that I imported into obsidian, but all of the items that were italicised are now framed with*. I used obsidian instead of importing the individual epubs to stitch together multiple entries, but to be able to remove everything but the story text, without notes or tags. How would I auto remove and replace the "*" with proper italics on either side? Thank you for any help.

[Quoth]

Import to MS Word or LO Writer, or anything else that interprets simple markdown.
*<space><some text><newline> becomes a bullet
and *<some text>* is bold.

Search and replace bold with italics

import docx to Calibre.

Or import to Calibre and use Replace/Del Spans etc tool to change the bold to italic.

There are other solutions.

Usually italics uses /<some text>/ though some people use _<some text>_

These simple markdowns date from 19th C. use of the typewriter. There are more complete markdown syntaxes invented since.

[taratears]

Thank you, very much.

[JohnnyBook]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Or import to Calibre and use Replace/Del Spans etc tool to change the bold to italic.

Replace/Del Spans etc tool?

Are you just talking about the Search>"Find/Replace" function?

Or is there some Tool for working with <Spans>?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JohnnyBook

Replace/Del Spans etc tool?

Are you just talking about the Search>"Find/Replace" function?

Or is there some Tool for working with <Spans>?

Diaps Editing Toolbag Plugin (for the Editor)
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=2980740
It does proper matching of the open and closing tags.

[Quoth]

^^^ Yes, that's what I meant.
Invaluable tool for fixing crazy formatted ebooks!

I might look for a pattern with search & replace first so as to give a span with no class one called dummy and then use that with toolbag,
Also you can edit the list of tags it can replace.