Exclude footnotes from replacements

[dayofthedave]

It would be great if I could tell Scrivener to exclude footnotes from compile time replacement.

I am using linked footnotes to document the original form of terms replaced at compile time.

For example:

The quick brown [fox] jumped over the lazy dog. [Footnote: fox]

Should become:

The quick brown cat[1] jumped over the lazy dog.

1. fox

The footnote indicates that “cat” was originally “fox”.

For now, I can use regex replacement to achieve this, but it’s not perfect.

For the quote:

The quick brown [fox] jumped over the lazy dog. [Footnote: ~fox]

A rule to replace ([^~])fox with $1fox works, but I have to prepend ~ to all my footnotes and remove all instances of ~ after compile. The regex also messes with formatting code, so an italicized “fox” may yield a non-italicized “cat” in the compiled document.