On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On 04/16/2012 09:22 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >> >> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Richard Heck<rgh...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> >>> On 04/15/2012 12:13 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Richard Heck<rgh...@comcast.net> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 04/14/2012 07:39 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >>> >>> If you do the first thing I suggested, with the pointless regex, will >>> that >>> work? >>> >> Richard: I guess I'm still not getting your suggestion. Yes, the >> pointless Regex matches correctly, but I still don't [or "didn't," see >> below] know how to put the space back in in the replace field > > Oh, sorry, I see the problem. > > >> Enrico: Thanks for your suggestion (which I would have never dreamt >> of). It works, but I have two issues with it: >> >> 1. I can insert a space back in with empty ERT+space, but then I have >> my file littered with all these empty ERT boxes. They are ignored in >> the pdf output, as they should, but there are still very annoying. Is >> there any way to get rid of them? >> > Maybe that one could be done with a script. Another option would be to add > the space back in with something like "XXXXX ". Then you can replace that > with nothing.
Ah right...the old trick. I had forgotten about that (used to do it all the time on my wife's word files to get rid of double end-of-paragraphs). Thanks for reminding me. > > >> 2. Every time I try a global find and replace on my file (it's a >> chapter, about 25K words) with the suggested pattern (i.e: Find field: >> [REGEX \s"] Replace Field: CTRL-L " ) , Lyx gobbles up all the ram >> available until it crashes. Is this a general issue with the advanced >> F&R? >> > There have been some reports of this kind of behavior. Glad to know it is not me... Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
