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:

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