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I have had the experience a few times of writing a regex expression which works in RegEx Pal and also in ... Has anyone else had this experience or quantified this discrepancy?
mvk1000 206 asked Jun 30, 2025
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I have a regex that can extract all the figures in my Paratext project: \\fig .*\\fig\* I would like to have a ... . Thanks for any help you can give me on this. John Nystrom
john_nystrom 312 asked Nov 6, 2024
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I need to find out what percentage of each book has been drafted. A count of how many verses in each book have text ... Thanks for any help you can give me on this. John Nystrom
john_nystrom 312 asked Aug 21, 2024
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I am sure the answer to this must be out there somewhere, but I can't find it. How can I restrict a search and ... enough it is possible, but that is beyond my level of competence.
mvk1000 206 asked Aug 13, 2024
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25 years ago I learned CC tables, and got pretty good at it. Now I am trying to get with the times and learn regular ... get my expression to work in Reg Ex Pal in PTX, too.
mvk1000 206 asked Apr 19, 2024
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Dear Paratext users, We are working on a project and need to change the beginning of the verse from a lowercase letter ... \add it was\add* good. Thanks with regards, Thiyagarajan
Thiyagarajan 112 asked Aug 29, 2023
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Dear reader. I would like to find \fq followed by any string thing including ɛ ɔ ɲ ŋ until the first \\ft ... the search to the first non-occurance? Thanks in advance, Bart
goodgoan 347 asked Aug 3, 2023
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In one of our projects, we inserted footnotes using the insert cross reference tool in Paratext after everything was drafted and ... move the cross refs to the end of the verse?
anon251522 150 asked Jun 7, 2023
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I received this email from a translator. I could write an elementary regex expression, but believe I would miss some ... me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you, james_post
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I want to change lowercase to uppercase in certain situations - for instance I want to change all lowercase after a colon to ... very simple list and then adding to it as you go.
Phil_Leckrone 9.8k asked Mar 2, 2022
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I'm finding that RegEx Pal in PTX 9 is much slower in executing than in PTX8. Also, when it finds something that I want ... I can do to speed it up or keep it from crashing?
anon180868 195 asked Aug 23, 2021
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Paratext help says, In the Search box on the toolbar, you can enter the text you want to find or the regular expression ... list? Thanks for any help you can give me on this.
john_nystrom 312 asked Jun 15, 2021
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L.S. As explained on the lingtrans wiki page, it is possible to use the location field in \fig Paratext to ... hoping for some regex input here as well. Thanks in advance.
goodgoan 347 asked May 3, 2021
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Hi, I'm using this Regex \f .*?\f* for extract all footnotes, there is no books names to take printout for ... footnotes. Is any regex to get book names. image792 353 105 KB
Prabhu_beelagi 241 asked Jan 7, 2020
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[There is no Help topic for RegEx Pal, so I'll start this thread for myself or anyone else to add helpful ... History panic (post #3) Key terms for search: regular expression
wdavidhj 1.4k asked Jun 5, 2019
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We have a user who has inserted a lot of \pn and some \nd inside of footnotes. We now know we need those to be ... the search to inside of a single footnote? Thank you, MSEAIT/LT
MSEAIT_LT 478 asked Aug 20, 2018
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I cannot seem to find the EXE for Paratext RegEx Pal for PT8. Can anybody help me? Thanks, SIL+LSS+PNG
SIL LSS PNG 411 asked Mar 15, 2018
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It appears that for all projects that I have created in PT8 RegEx Pal displays text in the find and replace windows using ... What do I need to do to stop this from happening?
Kent Spielmann 1.8k asked Feb 26, 2018
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ALL CAPITAL TEXT in a project is anathema to typesetters for various reasons. They can just use styles in InDesign ... expressions? Ought I submit this as a feature request?
Kent Spielmann 1.8k asked Dec 20, 2017
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Hi, The previous version of Regex Pal (in Paratext 7.5 and 7.6) used Word Wrap/Line wrap, which was really helpful ... Is there any way to have RegEx Pal wrap lines? Thanks, BEH
BEH 418 asked Jul 31, 2017
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