On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/29/2010 03:59 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I need to do an extensive search and replace that would change all >> occurrences of ". to ." (rightdoublequotes + period --> >> period+rightdoublequotes). Is there any way to do this in Lyx? 1.6 does not >> seem to even see the double quotes (i.e. a find for " fails.) I tried the >> advanced search of Lyx 2.alpha 5, but got no results there either. Is there >> some special trick I I should be using? >> >> This is precisely the sort of thing for which advanced search is supposed > to work. > > I can get it to find a double quote, and to do the replacement. You might > need to make sure you have the right double quote. Typing ". will get you a > LEFT quote plus a period. So you have to type ", then type " again, to get a > right quote, delete the first one, then type the period, and search for > that. Same with the replacement. > > rh > > Aha! That was the trick. It works fine indeed Thx, S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (1) 979 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (1) 979 845-0458 College Station, Texas, USA
