In my annotations I had ((voc: laughs)). The replace string was “((v: laughs))”. Now I have “((((v: laughs))))” in the whole document.
Is there a way to now reduce the four brackets to two?
Thank you so much (I guess Hasloe!)
Yes, I’m afraid I’m the ‘usual suspect’ :).
Assuming the change has been saved in the mean time and an Undo is no longer possible (so that going back and replacing e.g. “voc:” by “v:” is not an option (if it ever was, maybe any alternative would make unwanted changes to other annotations)), this can be tried.
Open the Find and Replace window, make sure the regular expression checkbox is ticked and enter into the search field:
\({4}
(The bracket needs to be “escaped” with a backslash.) Click Search and verify that it finds the right annotations. Click Replace and enter
((
If the result is alright, repeat for the closing bracket.
-Han
A hero as always! You should set up a contribution fund - if I had my way, it would be overflowing with riches! Many thanks from Freiburg!
Great, I’ll think about that fund… 