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CamiloU
Inspiring
March 11, 2021
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How to find duplicate paragraphs?

  • March 11, 2021
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For example, identical text in footnotes need to be styled as Ibid.

In this case, they are consecutive.*
How to get them? Thanks

 

BVC. Annual Report. December /1916

BVC. Annual Report. December /1916

BVC. Annual Report. December /1916

 

* Also, it is possible to find them in diffent locations?

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Correct answer FRIdNGE

Adding a carriage-return at the end of the last para (if not):

 

Find:  ^(.+\r)\1+

Replace by:  $1

 

(^/)  The Jedi


… Or, without taking in account a "last" carriage-return:

 

Find:  ^((.+)\r)\1*\2

Replace by:  $2

 

[surely very tired for writing such a grep code! Time to go to sleep!  =D ]

 

(^/)

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Eugene Tyson
Adobe Expert
March 12, 2021

^(.+\r)\1

That should do it.

 

But - I am having mixed results, for example on the ME version on the Mac it finds differently.

On the English version on my PC it finds differently.

 

How odd? 

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CamiloUAuthor
Inspiring
March 12, 2021

No, it doesn'work. It stops after the first finding.
Thanks.

 

 

 

FRIdNGE
FRIdNGE
Inspiring
March 12, 2021

Adding a carriage-return at the end of the last para (if not):

 

Find:  ^(.+\r)\1+

Replace by:  $1

 

(^/)  The Jedi

Steve Werner
Steve Werner
Adobe Expert
March 11, 2021

Perhaps I'm not understanding, but you can do it with Edit > Find/Change as shown below. I set "Ibid" to italic by using the Change Format category. The ^p metacharacter stands for End of Paragraph and can be chosen from the @ menu.

 

    Steve Werner
    Steve Werner
    Adobe Expert
    March 11, 2021

    To answer your other question, the instances do not have to be consecutive.

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      CamiloUAuthor
      Inspiring
      March 12, 2021

      No problem Steve I agree it used to be italicized but normal practise is to not italicize it. The Chicago style guide says:

      If you consecutively cite the same source two or more times in a note (complete or shortened), you may use the word “Ibid” instead. Ibid is short for the Latin ibidem, which means “in the same place”. If you’re referencing the same source but different page, follow ‘Ibid’ with a comma and the new page number(s).

      Examples

                1. Newton N. Minow and Craig L. LaMay, Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promising Future (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 24-25.

                2. Minow and LaMay, Presidential Debates, 24-25.

                3. Ibid.

                4. Ibid, 28-30.


      Hi. This is not a post about editing...
      Chicago, Oxford, Cambridge have guides.

      Here is a problem to find duplicates...

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