I just realized that this GREP only works for the whole numbers and not the fractions, I’m trying to figure out a way that it will work with the fractions, but so far I haven’t had any luck.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought CS3 did have some export option that would export to “digital book” or something, not the best but it was something, CS4 and CS5 had some/better ePub handling and export options, CS5.5 was when ePub export really took off and seemed more than a side project, and while it still had it’s bugs it was a huge leap from what came before it. Of course CS6 and beyond has better ePub features but if you know what you’re doing in the earlier versions, they do give you a least a starting point, that said you might have to do more hands on work with with the code than with the newer versions, but it’s doable.

Im not sure if I’ve used the CS4 plugin or not, it’s been awhile. I’m guessing it’s probably exporting to Mobi7, which isn’t the latest KF8 file, but I believe all the Kindles still support it (all the way back to the original Kindle) so you shouldnt run into too many issues on the newer ones, it’s just more limited in features.

Anyway, good luck with your ebook, I hope that plugin works for you.

Keep (\K) is similar to a lookbehind, it consider’s everything before it as zero width but unlike a lookbehind it isnt greedy (ie you dont have to be explicit and you can use modifiers), so in the case of your GREP search (I couldnt get it to work but just using it as an example), actually let’s change the page breaks to tabs to simplify things:

\K.+?\r

but what if you wanted to search for multiple tabs, in a lookbehind you would have to be explicit in how many tabs you were looking for, but with Keep you can use modifiers (such as +) to complete your search where as it would error out with a lookbehind:

+\K.+?\r

Hey Tuz,

I don’t know of any way to search specifically for the end of story icon, but you could use GREP to find all the content in the story, try this

Find: (?s:(.+?)$)(?!~b)
Replace: $1\r~8

This worked for me in finding all the content in a story, and then allowing me to add a new line and place a bullet at the end.

Let me know if that helps or if it needs tweaking.

Aaron

Andrea,

that’s totally possible with GREP, try this. I’m using a capturing groups which is represented by the parenthesis which says “group this content” and I can later call that group in the replace field by referring to it with a back reference which is a GREP variable which always starts with the dollar sign and number (1-9). So below I’m capturing all the text in the paragraph, then adding the double quotes to either side of the back reference.

Find: ^(.+?)$
Replace: ~{$1~}

Let me know if that works for you and/or if it needs tweaking

Joshua,

Your right, you will probably will need a second or third search as well. I realize I did make a mistake on the first GREP search I posted so I thought I would make that correction and give you a few more searches as well as one might not catch everything you want it to. I think these should just about cover all your parameters, I tried to explain what each does to make it easier,

Search 1: Em Dash with some type of space on both sides, but not at the the end of a line/paragraph
Find: ( |~S|~s)?(—)( |~S|~s)?(?!(~}|$))
Replace: ~s$2~s

Search 2: Em Dash followed by closing parenthesis or end of line/paragraph
Find: ( |~S|~s)?(—)(?=(”|$))
Replace: ~s$2

Search 3: Em Dash preceded by opening parenthesis
Find: ( |~S|~s)?(—)( |~S|~s)?(?=~{)
Replace: ~s$2

Masood,

Yeah, Lookbehinds are non-greedy and kind of a pain when you are needing it to be greedy, one way to get around it is to use Keep or \K, it’s similar to a lookbehind but allows you to be greedy with your search, for example if you wanted to change this tab to a space but dont know how deep your list goes:

\d+\.\K(?=.+?$)

The Keep works pretty much the same way as a lookbehind and it adds the functionality of being non-greedy. Anyway play with the \K, it should do what you are wanting it to.

Andy,

From my experience the image quality that comes out of word is pretty low resolution so I always ask for the author/client for the original images, whether for print or digital, because the images that come out of Word are usually too low quality to do anything with. I do usually flow in the book into InDesign with the images as they’re at least great for placement, but if you can get the author to email you the original images (as Jpeg’s not in another Word doc, I’ve had that happen) that would probably be best.