Replace with placeholder?

[ElMiko]

@meme-- what does (?si) mean? Also, I haven't been able to find anything that lists these kinds of statements (eg (?si), (?s), (?U), etc...), do you know of a website that does?

[meme]

Try the Sigil User Guide tutorial on Regex...it has links to other sites.

i is ignore case
s is dot all

[ElMiko]

Thanks meme. I'm still struggling with understanding part of the regex though, specifically:

(?![^<>]*>)

The double negative is scrambling my brain. Think you could sort me out?

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by meme

Yes. Open the Find & Replace Window (Ctrl-F). In the Find text box put the Find text above. In the Replace put the replace text. Select Regex, All HTML Files and then click Replace All.

Thanks, Meme. That helped. Don´t need Santa now.

However, some tags with <&nbsp;> got erased as well. Have to solve that.
Will check if some other tags are in danger as well.

[meme]

Sorry, the regex was borrowed from the Regex Examples thread and adapted - you'll need a regex guru around here to explain it.

<&nbsp;> is a bit odd. &nbsp; is an HTML entity not a tag, so it won't be inside < >. Haven't tested it with those.

[GraciousMe]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

If you are stuck on a special layout, you are likely to be disappointed if you start changing size on a real device or on one of the PC versions, like the Sony Reader Library. You need to check it out.

PDF may be the way to go if you must have a fixed layout. But it has its own problems. You may be able to work around these by limiting the amount of text per page and size of images so the page can be increased in size without everything going sideways.

Not special or fixed, but SPECIFIC layout, I would say. Different chapters being built in different ways.

I think I have digested the hard fact that in an e-book you cannot have control over how the book looks to the reader. PDF is not the way I want to go here.

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by meme

Replaces are done in Code View

Ah... that makes my suggestion significantly harder, indeed...

[Perkin]

At beginning of the Group created to change the characters, have another regex which will alter any entities to include '<' & '>', then also have one at end of group which removes them again.
EDIT: remove space after ';' chars (poxy smilies )
EDIT (Jellby): no need to remove anything, you can use the [noparse] tag when posting
Before
Find: (&.{,5};)
Replace: <\1>

After
Find <(&.{,5};)>
Replace: \1