I am trying to convert my old NisusWriter Classic 
macros, and going crazy in the process. I read 
the documentation, I look at Kino's help file on 
the new PowerFind Pro, and sometimes it helps -- 
and sometimes it doesn't.

I'm having terrible problems with treating 
literals as metacharacters, e.g. in a PowerFind 
Pro expression in a macro, "\." is treated as 
just plain "."

For example, I want to turn any instance of two 
or more periods followed by zero or more spaces 
to an ellipsis "Š"

The way I read the documentation, the following line should work:

Find and Replace "\.\.+ *","Š","Ea"

That is, take a literal period, followed by one 
or more additional literal periods, followed by 
spaces, and convert it to an ellipsis.

Instead of doing that, it converts entire 
documents into an ellipsis, as if the command were

Find and Replace ".","Š","Ea"

I have several other problems of this type, but I 
would imagine I can solve them all if I can solve 
this one. What am I missing?

And I KNOW I'm missing something stupid, so you don't need to point it out. :-)