Regular expression confusion!

macropod · #7 02-12-2021, 01:30 PM

In that case, as advised at the top of the post in the link, the spaces between the numbers and book names can be corrected:

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Originally Posted by macropod

The code also requires books beginning with numerals (e.g. 1 Ki.) to have a non-breaking space between the numeral and the book's (abbreviated) name. If your document doesn't already use non-breaking spaces there, you can correct that before running the macros via a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = (<[1-3]) ([CJKPST][a-z]@>)
Replace = \1^s\2
This also has the advantage of ensuring book references like '1 Ki.', '2|Tim.', etc., are kept together on the same line.

That should be sufficient to allow you to use the macros in the link. The only other thing you might need to change is some of the abbreviations the macro looks for; different authors follow a variety of abbreviation conventions. Hopefully your author is at least consistent in the way book names are abbreviated.

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