Endnote GREP issues

[Bedazzled532]

Hi,

I have a text where there is a space before endnote marker. I want to remove it from the whole book.

This is what I am entering in Find: (\{0020})(~U)

But this expression is not finding the match at all. I have attached a screenshot. Number 5 is in paranthesis which is an Endnote. There is a space before it. I want to remove the space before it.

In the Replace Text box I will enter $2. (wrongly tryped in the attachment as $2$1)

It aint working.

Any help will highly be appreciated.

Thanks.

[Eugene Tyson]

Should be 

\x{0020}

See if that works

[Bedazzled532]

I tried \x{0020} but tht aint working

[Eugene Tyson]

Well that's for space - so it worked for me. Unless it's not normal space

try \h instead. 

[Bedazzled532]

Hi Eugene

Thanks for your effort but for some reason it is not working. If there is a space after an endnote reference its capturing that but it is not capturing it before the endnote. I have enlarged and taken a screenshot for your information.

I am stuck. Manually will take lot of time. 

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

This is an Adobe special. You're right, space+endnote marker doesn't find anything, whether you use \h, \s, \x{0020}, \x20, or even the literal space character. But ~F, the footnote marker, matches endnote markers as well. So you can look for \x20~F and remove the space.

Be careful with the note marker, you can't use it the way you did. To remove the space before note markers, use this:

Find what: \x{0020}(?=~F)

Change to: <leave empty>

(?=~F) is a lookahead: so the expression finds only the spaces that are followed by a note marker but leaves the note marker alone.

P.

[Bedazzled532]

Wow 

Thanks so much Peter. It worked like a charm.

Thanks a ton.