It seems to be partially a problem with the different ways a text editor can view search perameters, as Normal Text, as Extended characters or as Regular Expression. I've tried so many different versions of this syntax in the other text editors available to me, with no real success. With the possible exception of Open Office and the built-in Windows stuff the rest are all recent downloads and should be the newest available. 3.2.1), along with Window's Wordpad and Notepad. 5.4.2) In addition, I have access to NotePad++ (ver. The same author of this information above recommended a different text editor in addition, TextPad, which I downloaded (ver.
So, this works like a charm but the Demo expiration on UltraEdit (ver. Replace with: \1 <-There is a space after the one. For various reasons (capital letters, punctuation) I found that running a second pass using the inverse manages to catch almost all of the other instances, like this: Replace With: \1 <-There is a space before the One. Select Match Case and turn on Regular Expression, choose Perl as Expression Engine. I have to admit that I only partially understand the syntax of the search parameters so that makes it difficult to translate it directly to another application.įirst, what works: Open document in UltraEdit, pull up Replace window. I have a multitude of other free text editors and I believe I should be able to perform the same task in one of them just the same. I was successful using this technique in the recommended text editor (UltraEdit) but of course it costs money. I learned that it was possible to do a relatively simple Find/Replace function in a text editor to search for a line break followed directly by any lower-case letter of the alphabet as would usually happen if you a place a line break mid-sentence. I'm not truly cheap, I'm just certain that I can do this task without needing one particular commercial software. In brief, I'm trying to figure out what freeware text editor will allow me to use the same solution I've worked out on the expensive software that I don't want to purchase. I've gathered enough information to create a functioning solution but I'm using demo software that will expire in a month.
Here's the thing: a number of the original texts I'm dealing with have hard coded line break/carriage returns that cause broken-up sentences in the final product. I'm working off some info from an older post on this forum and so this post is more about pre-Calibre editing. I'm trying to work within Calibre primarily but occasionally the formatting fails a bit and I try to drop back and fix the original text files manually.
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