At 20:49 10/09/2020 +0100, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
Thank you (once again), Brian. I'll test all
this in the morning. What I'm trying to achieve
is to select all the terms inside the brackets
and then in one fell swoop (1) to change them
all to italic (and therefore excluding the
brackets)
Interesting question, Seamas. I found a reference here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27225148 and tried that on LibreOffice
Writer 6.4 and it seems it works:
(?<=\[).+?(?=\])
It can find your "[thus]" without the brackets.
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At 18:42 10/09/2020 +0100, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
Some time ago Brian Barker provided a brilliant
formula for finding all text between less-than and greater-than signs, namely
<[^>]*>
I've been trying to adapt it to finding text
within brackets [thus], but without success. I
know that
Thank you (once again), Brian. I’l test all this in the morning.
What I’m trying to achieve is to select all the terms inside the brackets and
then in one fell swoop (1) to change them all to italic (and therefore
excluding the brackets) and (2) to change the language of the text within the
Some time ago Brian Barker provided a brilliant formula for finding all text
between less-than and greater-than signs, namely
<[^>]*>
I’ve been trying to adapt it to finding text within brackets [thus], but
without success. I know that brackets as such, as distinct from regular
expressions,
