http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/ A forum for discussing Cindex indexing software. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:03:50 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8253 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8253 ... italicized ... Selectively how? Can you give an example? I'm not sure I understand your REPLACE pattern. It seems to say: Any locator beginning with the Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:17:30 GMT N a n c y G e r t h http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8252 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8252 Anybody working on this beautiful Sunday? I need to remove italics from some locators. I find all the records with italicized locators fine. When I go to Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:24:06 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8251 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8251 ... All Cindex macros do is record keystrokes and mouse clicks. I'm not aware of any intelligence that can step through a string and stop at a certain Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:02:38 GMT Scott Smiley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8250 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8250 Cindex macro. I can't tell you details because my Cindex for Mac does not have macros. Scott ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:22:50 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8249 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8249 ... I just finished making the changes semi-manually: Ctrt + Shift + Right Arrow selects a word at a time. When I have all the words selected, Ctrl + B bolds Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:27:05 GMT Scott Smiley http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8248 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8248 I think I have a solution (and if this doesn't work, an alternate). FIND: ^?*. [A-Z] REPLACE WITH: \& (applying bold) Then you have to unbold the period, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:30:48 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8247 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8247 ... use ... The problem is that it doesn't STOP at the first period, it stops at the last. Because each entry is an entire paragraph, there are potentially Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:19:11 GMT Margaret Berson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8246 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8246 Richard, If I'm understanding the problem correctly, the way to do it might be to use regular expressions like this (I'm not very familiar with Cindex yet so I Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:18:34 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8245 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8245 ... pattern ... which is ... I meant "No way to do it in native Cindex." I'm probably not going to get and learn a new text editor to make one global change in Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:06:17 GMT David K. Ream http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8244 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8244 Not necessarily. Some text editors let you specify minimal v. maximal pattern matching. The text editor I use and like is CodeWright. It assumes minimal Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:34 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8243 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8243 ... modern ... minimal- ... have ... I have Kedit, which allows me to specify how many occurrences on each line I want changed, but I don't know if it accepts Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:43:58 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8242 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8242 ... I expect I'd get the same result. The change won't stop at the first delimiter, no matter what character I use. As you can see by Dave Ream's posting, Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:37:45 GMT John Sampson http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8241 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8241 One could try saving the index as a DAT or even ARC file and then using a modern text editor which has regular-expression search and replace including minimal- Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:14:45 GMT Deborah Patton http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8240 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8240 How about temporarily replacing the periods with something else, doing the bold change, then changing the not-periods back to periods...? DP ... [Non-text Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:59:57 GMT Richard Evans http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8239 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cindexusers/message/8239 ... are ... with the ... last period ... heading ... Each paragraph has potentially more than one sentence, hence potentially multiple periods. Removing all