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Useful REGEX

PPTools/Guiguts/Guiguts 2 Manual/Help Menu#Regex Quick Reference

Potential <abbr> tag

• <abbr title=""></abbr>
• [ |\n|>][A-Z]{1}[a-z]{2}\.

Find a string that begins with either a space, linebreak, or >; has 1 Uppercase letter; has 2 lowercase letters; and ends with 1 period.

The numbers can be changed to look for different types of abbreviations.

Use Ctrl+F's “Find All” with “Alpha/Type” selected in order to more easily see the different types.

Ideally, notice odd abbreviations when sequentially inspecting text and write them down.

Poetry/Metrical Lowercase after Line Break

• \n[a-z]

Because poetry typically has Uppercase characters after each line break. (Find line break, find a lowercase character)

Small Caps Regex

• [A-Z]\.?</sc

Check for All Small Caps, including A.M. and B.C. (Find an uppercase character, find a . either 0 or 1 times, find </sc)

Useful CSS

Side-by-side

TBD

Italic block with normal text for emphasis

/* === Italics block with normal emphasis === */

.italics {font-style: italic;}

.italics em { font-weight: normal; font-family: initial; font-style: normal; }

Hemstitch in Metrical Drama

Hemstitch: spreading a metrical line across the dialogue of multiple speakers, commonly indenting the dialogue so that a metrical line visually flows between the speakers.

Stage directions, speaker, and dialogue are on separate lines:

• Use /$ and $/ for the dialogue in order to preserve leading spaces.

TXT File:

• Surround the /$ $/ block with a /* */ block in order to add 2 spaces while preserving the leading spaces in the text.
• 2-step search/replace with regex:
  • Search: /\$
  • Replace: /*\n/$
  • Search: \$/
  • Replace: $/\n*/
• Rewrap the entire document
• The /$ and $/ remain and need to be manually removed like so, noting 2 spaces:
  • Search: /\$\n
  • Search: \n \$/
  • Replace:
• Cleanup Rewrap Markers like normal

HTML File:

In the HTML, the leading space is automatically preserved with <span style="margin-left: 8.0em;"> and <br>

This styling functions, but the text will go off the screen on phones and small screens.

CSS:

.vanish {

    visibility: hidden

    }

This will render invisible the text used for alignment.

Follow these steps for a more efficient workflow:

• Replace span styling with span vanish:
  • Search: style="margin-left:.*?;">(.*?)</span>
  • Replace: class="vanish"> </span>\1
• Use this search to find the next and remaining lines:
  • Search: <span class="vanish"> </span>
  • Within the Span, copy and paste the previous line(s) of dialogue as needed for indentation, leaving a space at the end.