He found the pattern {{{some-digits}}} and replaced it with just some-digits in bold. The parenthesis on the outside of the pattern weren't part of the operation, so they were left untouched. This is a very friendly way to use what are called regular expressions. If you haven't heard of them, they are very powerful. They are also a little ugly to the eye, at least at first. The regular expression to find the braces and the digits would be \{\{\{\d+\}\}\}. The concept of greedy or non-greedy is a regular expression thing, too. This gives you a lot of control. It's also a feature you can pretty much ignore if you don't need it. Mellel is awesome!
In the first operation, the curly braces were added around the number so: (123) was turned into ({{{123}}}) and in the second operation, the digits were replaced by themselves in bold and the curly brackets were removed.
A lovely, very capable word processor. I'm glad Mellel is going strong, some 16-17 years after my purchase of the v.1.x license. Nostalgia…
Great, only that "search and replace" doesn't come up in Mellel 6. It's gone. Where on earth can I get it back?
How did the curly braces turn into parentheses when you did the replace? That was just weird…
He found the pattern {{{some-digits}}} and replaced it with just some-digits in bold. The parenthesis on the outside of the pattern weren't part of the operation, so they were left untouched.
This is a very friendly way to use what are called regular expressions. If you haven't heard of them, they are very powerful.
They are also a little ugly to the eye, at least at first.
The regular expression to find the braces and the digits would be \{\{\{\d+\}\}\}.
The concept of greedy or non-greedy is a regular expression thing, too. This gives you a lot of control.
It's also a feature you can pretty much ignore if you don't need it.
Mellel is awesome!
In the first operation, the curly braces were added around the number so:
(123)
was turned into
({{{123}}})
and in the second operation, the digits were replaced by themselves in bold and the curly brackets were removed.
@@MellelRedlex very eager to see 5.1. Mellel is a very important tool. Hope I can someday contribute to your “written with Mellel” roster.