Page numbers

[troll05]

Hi everybody,

I'm pretty new with editing ebooks, and just started with Sigil two days ago.
So far everything is fine, but I've got some books which have page numbers and authors names in the text, where a pagebreak would occur in a pbook.

Looks like this "1/The Writer" and the next page "The Writer/2" and so on.

Is there any possibility to remove all these by a single action? I was quite succesful in removing these annoying commercials "Created with PDF..." with the "Find and Replace" feature, but AFAIK it will not work on the pagenumbers.

Please answer in plain english and not some programmers language as this will only cause

[Toxaris]

It is possible with some RegEx. Select that option in the replace window and select 'minimal matching'.

Search for: [0-9]/The Writer or The Writer/[0-9]
Replace by:

If there are more than 10 pages (which is quite usual...), you can either place more [0-9] or replace it by: \d{1,3}. The latter will take up to 999 pages.

[troll05]

Maybe I got it wrong, but can you please have a look at what I've done?

Original:

ax.</p>

<p class="calibre1">CYBER LUflY</p>

<p class="calibre1">83</p>

<p class="calibre1">The

in the "find what" line now looks:

ax.</p>

<p class="calibre1">CYBER LUflY</p>

<p class="calibre1">\d{1,3}</p>

<p class="calibre1">The

In the "replace with" I simply inserted a blank

Search results for this are 0

[Toxaris]

Try the following:

Search: <p class="calibre1">[0-9]</p>

Replace with: nothing!!

Then add more [0-9] for the bigger numbers. The \d does not work as I thought... This will remove the complete line.

Oh, if it is already changed with <p class="calibre1">\d{1,3}</p>, then just replace it with nothing in the normal search mode.

[Ahmad Samir]

What exactly are you trying to remove? the <p class="calibre1">83</p> line or all of:
<p class="calibre1">CYBER LUflY</p>

<p class="calibre1">\d{1,3}</p>

<p class="calibre1">The


(FWIW, you can just use \d+ it'll match any number of digits).

[troll05]

Hi,
target is to replace everything that's coloured in red by a single blank

ax.</p>

<p class="calibre1">CYBER LUflY</p>

<p class="calibre1">83</p>

<p class="calibre1">The

[Perkin]

Try this...
Search for

</p>..<p .+>CYBER LUflY</p>..<p.+>\d+</p>..<p .+>

Replace with a 'space'.

Minimal matching, might be better to NOT match case (because of 'CYBER LUflY')

The .'s are for the end of lines - if there's indentation in your lines, after each pair add a number of spaces to match your indentation. e.g. 2 spaces ->

</p>.. <p .+>CYBER LUflY</p>.. <p.+>\d+</p>.. <p .+>

[Toxaris]

Please keep in mind, that sometimes the end of a page is also the end of a paragraph. In that case you do not want to replace it with a space.

[troll05]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

Please keep in mind, that sometimes the end of a page is also the end of a paragraph. In that case you do not want to replace it with a space.

THX, that's quite clear and I usually have two runs of replacement, one for the "in paragraph pagebreak" and one for "end paragraph pagebreak", but I didn't get it working on changing numbers.

[cybmole]

Originally Posted by troll05

Hi,
target is to replace everything that's coloured in red by a single blank

find
</p>\s*<p class="calibre1">CYBER LUflY</p>\s*<p class="calibre1">\d+</p>\s*<p class="calibre1">

i.e. you put all the red stuff on one line with \s* in the gaps ( deals with the whitespace)
and replace the 83 with \d+ ( match 1 or more digits)