There are others. I use Textpad, and find it does what I want to do. Best wishes
On 27 May 2012 at 13:07, Tony wrote: Send reply to: [email protected] Date sent: Sun, 27 May 2012 13:07:56 +0200 Subject: Re: Is there a way to do this... From: Tony <[email protected]> To: [email protected] > I often typeset books, but prefer to save them as pure text and open > them in Vim > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29>+Solarized<https:/ > /github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized>before I bring them into > OpenOffice or InDesign or whatever. > > Vim is the most powerful text editor on the planet, and lets me get > rid of your type of problems with ease. It can be a bit tricky at > first though, but learning it is well worth it - and even if you're > dumb like me (I'm not saying you are though) - it will quickly become > second nature. Like for your problem I'd just type: > > :%s/,"/, "/g > > and press enter. Good luck! > > Tony > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Ima Afrotrap <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I often copy and paste from e-book formats into odt simply because > > odt is always such a nice smaller file size and I have all the > > control in the world over what kind of font I want to use, etc. > > > > One problem I often have is something like this... > > > > For instance, in the following sentence: > > > > ----- > > He had just said wearily,"There's no timber down there to build > > cabins." ----- > > > > There's no 'space' between the apostrophe and the beginning > > quotation marks. In this particular e-book, there is a *LOT* of this > > and I'll not be able to enjoy reading the book if I have to stop > > every 5 seconds to click on the spot and hit the spacebar all the > > time. > > > > I looked at the find/replace, but when I tried that it didn't work > > very well and then I had to *delete* a space when it put it *between > > an apostrophe and an end quotation mark. > > > > I don't understand well enough how to use the regular expressions > > and would really like to be able to use the find/replace so it can > > do the 1000+ corrrections for me and I can get back to the > > occassional manual fix, heh. > > > > Does anyone have any idea how I can do this to make it easier on > > myself and get ahead with actual reading? (hopefully I described the > > problem well enough for someone to actually be able to help me). > > > > > > JB > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > Niall Martin Phone 0131 4678468 Please reply to: niall<at>rndmartin.cix.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
