Bob, the problem (which is not obvious at all) is that your macro uses the double quotes. In NWP this causes interpolation, so the the "\." is turned into a '.' before the Find/Replace is executed, which as you might notice yourself is going to be a disaster for your macro. If you replace the double quotes with single quotes that should solve the problem.

best
Philip

PS: I can't remember the Classic syntax so well, so the role with interpolation may have changed. I can never remember this stuff myself, and always have to check.


On 7. Aug 2011, at 1:51 , Robert B Waltz wrote:

> 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. :-)

Philip Spaelti
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