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Leonatus · 03-16-2024, 12:13 PM

Maybe that's the wrong forum, but I didn't find a better suiting one!
My problem:
In many languages, especially french and italian, direct speech begins simply with a dash at the beginning of the paragraph, such as:

Code:

Text, text, text:
– Speech, speech...

At translating, I want to replace the characters indicating direct speech by chevrons (» as opening, « as ending characters). Of course, it is simple to replace the dashes at the beginning of a paragraph by the opening chevron. But, in the say french book, the end of the direct speech is frequently not indicated otherwise as by a new paragraph.
So, what I want to achieve is to find paragraphs beginning with "»", but not ending with "«" (some do, due to previous search and replace operations, so I have to mark this explicitely). To this end, I suppose I have to use wildcards.
I tried for example:

Code:

(»*[!«]^13){1}

and this one (others do likewise) finds the end of paragraphs not consisting in a closing chevron, but jumps over several paragraphs, until finding one that doesn't end with such a chevron.
So, how can I restrict the search to first paragraph that begins with an opening chevron, but ends without a closing one?
Is there a Word crack able to assist me?

03-16-2024, 12:13 PM	#1
Leonatus Wizard Posts: 1,023 Karma: 10963125 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Guben, Brandenburg, Germany Device: Kobo Clara 2E, Tolino Shine 3	Word wildcard problem Maybe that's the wrong forum, but I didn't find a better suiting one! My problem: In many languages, especially french and italian, direct speech begins simply with a dash at the beginning of the paragraph, such as: Code: Text, text, text: – Speech, speech... At translating, I want to replace the characters indicating direct speech by chevrons (» as opening, « as ending characters). Of course, it is simple to replace the dashes at the beginning of a paragraph by the opening chevron. But, in the say french book, the end of the direct speech is frequently not indicated otherwise as by a new paragraph. So, what I want to achieve is to find paragraphs beginning with "»", but not ending with "«" (some do, due to previous search and replace operations, so I have to mark this explicitely). To this end, I suppose I have to use wildcards. I tried for example: Code: (»*[!«]^13){1} and this one (others do likewise) finds the end of paragraphs not consisting in a closing chevron, but jumps over several paragraphs, until finding one that doesn't end with such a chevron. So, how can I restrict the search to first paragraph that begins with an opening chevron, but ends without a closing one? Is there a Word crack able to assist me?