Regex examples

[stumped]

apologies if this is somewhere within the 539 previous posts...
I want to fix a few book errors where the is no space between a closing period and the 1st character of the next sentence. But I don't know how to do " not" in regex & the obvious search would be a "." followed by [ not a space - regular or nbsp ]
because a sentence can start with a letter or with an opening quote mark, and those come in various flavors
or is there a better way ?

[jbacelar]

Search:
\.[^\s]

[roger64]

Hi

I'd like to search all files for some unwanted characters (some of them are special). It's these ones:

• ^ * | _ [

I tried to set up a regex but did not succeed to build a valid search.

[doubleshuffle]

Have you tried putting a backslash before each of them in your search term? Like:

([\•\^\*\|\_\[])

I'm not one of the experts, but this might be worth a try before they turn up.

EDIT: Just quickly tested the search. It works.

[roger64]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Have you tried putting a backslash before each of them in your search term? Like:

([\•\^\*\|\_\[])

I'm not one of the experts, but this might be worth a try before they turn up.

EDIT: Just quickly tested the search. It works.

My mistake was trying to insert a | between each character.

[doubleshuffle]

I'm working on a huge book which has lots of words in Greek. I want to put a span around each of them (or, if it's a string of words, around the whole string, ideally). Does anyone have an idea how to accomplish this with a regex?

[Maui]

Search

(\p{Greek}{1,})

Replace

<span class="greek">\1</span>

with unchecked minimal match

Consecutive words can be bound together by

Find

</span> <span class="greek">

replace by one single blank

[doubleshuffle]

Wow, thanks! I had no idea you could just specify Greek as a character class!

[Turtle91]

I'm pretty sure that is checking for Greek 'letters' not words. As long as you are using the Greek alphabet and not a romanization/translation it should work fine.

\p{ name }	Matches any single character in the Unicode general category or named block specified by name.	

ex:
\p{Lu}              "C", "L" in "City Lights"
\p{IsCyrillic}	"Д", "Ж" in "ДЖem"
\p{IsGreekandCoptic}

That is a .NET regex reference...and I can't for the life of me remember which regex flavor Sigil uses...

edit:
Here is a link to a unicode regex reference list for anyone else looking.

[doubleshuffle]

Well, Greek words written in Greek letters. That's what I was trying to find, and the regex worked perfectly for that. (Srsly, do you really think I would have asked for a regex to find Greek words written in the Latin alphabet???)

[Turtle91]

Just wanted to clarify for others out there....

My wife is a Latin teacher with several years of Greek in school... She had several issues with romanized "Greek" words put out there by people trying to be 'helpful'.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by Maui

Search

(\p{Greek}{1,})

Replace

<span class="greek">\1</span>

One minor tweak. I would recommend replacing with:

<span class="greek" lang="grc" xml:lang="grc">\1</span>

or whatever Greek you are using:

grc: Ancient Greek (to 1453)
el: Modern Greek (1453-)

You could see the list of lang codes here:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/lan...ubtag-registry

Side Note: Marking your HTML up with proper lang is helpful (Dictionary lookup, Spellchecking, Hyphenation, Search, [...]).

[doubleshuffle]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Does the language info have to be in the html tags, or can I also put it in the stylesheet?

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by doubleshuffle

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. Does the language info have to be in the html tags, or can I also put it in the stylesheet?

In the HTML tags.

The code has the potential to look really ugly, so I would use it sparingly.

Text-to-Speech

For example, this would help text-to-speech read the words using the proper accents:

<p>I like to eat tacos.</p>
<p class="spanish" lang="es" xml:lang="es">Me gusta comer tacos.</p>
<p>Go with me to the store.</p>

"tacos" in Spanish sounds like "ta-cos", while English more like "ta-cohs".

"me" in Spanish is spoken like "may", while English is spoken like "mee".

Or you can mark a small group of words. For example, some styles make foreign words italic:

<p>The con artist ordered <i lang="es" xml:lang="es">pollo con carne</i> from the Mexican restaurant.</p>

Spellcheck

Also, Calibre supports Multi-Language Spellcheck, so when you use the Spellcheck word list you can see the differences:



So you can see that:

con (Spanish) =/= con (English)

[Leonatus]

I'm at a book where quotations are marked by right- (opening) and left-pointing double angle quotes (» and «).
First problem: Frequently, in the middle of direct speech marked as reported, there are citations that are as well marked by right- and left-pointing double angle quotes. I would like to replace those citations by single angle quotes. Is there a good way to find them (only in the middle of direct speech, not outside)?

Second problem: It appears, that at direct speech passages, there is an opening double angle, but the closing one is missing (by error of OCR, perhaps). How can I find (and replace) such items, please?
Edit: Sometimes it's vice-versa: the closing mark is there, but the opening one is missing.

Any help appreciated!