Re: [libreoffice-users] Find all within brackets

At 20:49 10/09/2020 +0100, Séamas Ó Brógáin  wrote:
> Thank you (once again), Brian. I'll test all 
> this in the morning. What I'm trying to achieve 
> is to select all the terms inside the brackets 
> and then in one fell swoop (1) to change them 
> all to italic (and therefore excluding the 
> brackets) and (2) to change the language of the 
> text within the brackets to a different one from 
> the main text. I'll do it all manually if 
> necessary, but there are an awful lot of them!

No need. First use
\[[^]]*\]
and Find All to select all the bracketed phrases. 
Then apply italics and the change of language. Then search for
[|]
(meaning open bracket or close bracket) and again 
Find All to select all brackets. Now undo italics 
and (if it matters) reset the language for the brackets themselves.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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