Ypo writes on Sat 12 Nov 2022 15:42: > Hi > > I am copy-pasting e-books into org-mode to read and study them. > > Usually, words come hyphenated, like "ato- mized", that I wanted to > transform into "atomized". > > I am trying with query replace, but I am starting to think that it is > not the correct tool for this job. > I tried "query-replace [a-z]-" but I don't know how to exclude the > letter before the "-".
I don't really understand the thing with e-books but as for transforming "ato- mized" (or "ato-mized") into "atomized", how about something like query-replace-regex \([a-z]\)-[[:blank:]]*\([a-z]\) \1\2 -- EOST (École et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre) ITE (Institut Terre & Environnement) | alain.coch...@unistra.fr 5 rue René Descartes [bureau 110] | Phone: +33 (0)3 68 85 50 44 F-67084 Strasbourg Cedex, France | [ slot available for rent ]
