I like your XXX idea. It should avoid me having to go through each
cite to check for middle-of-the-cite commas which have been wrongly
de-underlined. Thanks.

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In the last exciting episode on Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:15:44 -0800, Daiya
Mitchell wrote:

|Well, Replace and Find Next is still easier than doing it completely
|manually.
|
|But would it work to search for underlined commas followed by a
|non-underlined space? Hmm, that's technically not allowed. Replace all
|underlined spaces with XXX, then de-underline all commas followed by a
|space, then undo the XXX?
|
|Obviously, once you work out the right combos you can record it as a macro.
|
|Might also want to check out editorium.com, which has some tools for editors
|cleaning up submissions, though not specifically legal. Might be worth
|trying google, though.
|
|Might want to study up on Wildcards and see if there is any way to use
|them--perhaps Graham will be able to help out, if he sees your most recent
|post. Lots of traffic over here...
|http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
|If the legal case names are fairly regular that might help both the comma
|and small caps issue.
|
|DM
|
|
|On 3/9/05 1:04 PM, "*((({" wrote:
|
| Arrrgh --
| Doing a find-replace to change italicized or underlined commas
| to plain commas within legal cites will not work because legal cites
| contain internal commas, which should remain italicized or underlined;
| only the comma at the end of the legal cite must be in plain text.
|