Grep code

Karin Fredsøe

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- October 11, 2017 at 2:19 pm #98804
  
  Karin Fredsøe
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  Hallo…
  
  Can anybody help me with a crep code?
  
  I need to change quotation mark from one kind to another.
  
  From “lots of words in the book” to »lots of words in the book«
  
  I hope someone can do the trick ;·)
- October 11, 2017 at 2:23 pm #98806
  
  Karin Fredsøe
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  And if it is possible to do it with variations:
  
  “Lots of words in the book.”
  »Lots of words in the book.«
- October 11, 2017 at 2:27 pm #98807
  
  Michel Allio for FRIdNGE
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  [I’ve just copied your sentence!] No need Grep!
  
  Replace “ by »
  Replace ” by «
  
  (^/)
- October 11, 2017 at 9:17 pm #98814
  
  Thirunavukkarasu Natarajan
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  No need to use Grep, will change in normal text find.
  
  Find: “lots of words in the book”
  
  Replace: »lots of words in the book«
- October 11, 2017 at 11:27 pm #98815
  
  Karin Fredsøe
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  Thank you for your reply.
  
  I may have to precise my problem. I have a book-text with lots of quotation marks surrounding different kind of text…
  I hoped that I could change both the marks at the same time.
  
  “random kind of word in any given sentence”
  »random kind of word in any given sentence«
  
  This I can’t do without a crep.
- October 12, 2017 at 12:20 am #98817
  
  Graham Park
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  Not sure why you need GREP to do this but if you want to, I think you need two expression (Obi-wan might be able to do it in one)
  Problem trying to do it in one expression is that you have two different substitution you want to do.
  
  FInd
  “\<
  Replace
  »
  
  Find
  \>”
  Replace
  «
- October 12, 2017 at 12:26 am #98818
  
  Karin Fredsøe
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  Thanks…
  
  I need it because I have 150 pages of text, and there is at lot of marks to change.
  
  And I have three more books, where I have to do the same…
  
  It was a attempt to do it more quickly.
- October 12, 2017 at 12:37 am #98819
  
  Graham Park
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  It has to be a Find and Replace with or with GREP.
  Do no think it can be done with a GREP in a Paragraph style because that can only add formatting not do a replace
- October 12, 2017 at 12:47 am #98820
  
  Karin Fredsøe
  Member
  
  Okay, thanks for the replay.
  
  Had to try ;·)
- October 12, 2017 at 1:05 am #98822
  
  Kai Rübsamen
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  Hi guys, just another way:
  
  The look of a quotation-mark depends on the assigned language and therefore on the preference in Dictionary > Language > Double Quotes. The correct way would be: Change the look of the quotations here and then run a find: Shift+2, change: Shift+2 (either text or grep panel) and make sure before, that Preferences > Type > Use Typographers Quotes is checked.
  
  Why ist this maybe a better way than a simple find/change? Because if you type now quotion marks, you will get also the right ones.
  
  Kai
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