I need to make a selective change of words from upper to lower case. That is, sometimes I need to have, say, “King” be capitalized, but other times not. So I do not want a global search and replace, I need only a find. Can anyone help me with this?
(for the 895th time, Skip sighs for the lost world of WordPerfect Reveal Codes)
As I understand it, regex is not available on the Windows platform (boo!).
So you just need to do a project search for the whole word ‘king’ without regard to capitalization, and then manually change capitalization as you jump from search result to result?
There’s a search field in the toolbar by default. Inside it is a magnifying glass icon. Click that icon, and you can choose all the options that are appropriate for your needs, then enter ‘king’ in that search field. Your binder will switch to “Search Results” where only those documents with the word “King” in them are listed. Clicking on one will show you the contents of a document, and selecting all of those search results will put you into “Scrivenings mode”. Either way, the search term will be highlighted in yellow.
If you then want to just jump from one ‘king’ to another, you’ll have to use the other search tool (CTRL-f or the Edit->Find->Find menu), enter ‘king’ again and select the appropriate “whole word only” and “Ignore Case” options. Once you’ve invoked that search, you can dismiss the window and use F3 to jump from ‘king’ to ‘king’ throughout the entire scrivenings session.
And yes, all the above looks tedious, but it’s much simpler to do than to explain.
Thanks, I was afraid of that. When speaking of King Henry, both words are capitalized. When speaking of any old king, then the word is in lower case. Where I made my mistake was when I referred to the King and I was referring specifically to Henry, I thought the word should be capitalized. It is, after all, a shortened version of his title. Turns out, that iteration of the word should also be in lower case.
So it really is going to be a matter of human intervention. Great. 150,000 words and I’ve got emperors, kings, tribunes, prefects, generals and the army at the very least. See you next year!
-= Skip =-
Well, hold on a second… I take it from your response that you wanted a way to do that automatically, instead of by hand?
If so, then I’d suggest set up External Folder Sync (File->Sync->External Folder Sync). You can make it use plain text, so any old programmer’s tools will work on all of those files. Then go to town with regexes, sync back to Scrivener, and Bob’s your uncle.
Of course… DO A BACKUP FIRST!
Are you sure about that? englishgrammar101.com/modul … n-2/titles
Katherine