Greetings,

I'm using a startup macro to add style to an ASCII text
file by a combination of DOT settings and "tags" for each
style I want to apply. It works fine, but there's one
thing that I cannot figure out.

Let's say I have a sentence looking like this:

"The cars on the street were Blue."

I want to make the three words "on the street" go bold
while the rest of the text remains unchanged. My idea is
to add tags to the text, like it's done in HTML:

"The cars <BOLD>on the street</BOLD> were Blue."

I'm stuck with figuring out how to select only the text
within the tags...

Any hints appreciated!

TIA
Jon

In "Edit > Replace...", check "Match wildcards", then search for
        Find what: \<BOLD\>(*)\</BOLD\>
        Replace with: \1    ((with Format > Font > Bold,
                                       or press Ctrl+B while in the Replace
box))

The characters < and > have to be \escaped with a backslash in wildcard
searches, because they are used as wildcards (word anchors).
(*) will match anything between <BOLD> and </BOLD>, and \1 re-uses that
bracketed stuff in the replacement.

Greetings,
Klaus

Klaus,

Thanks a million! Precisely what I was looking for. You
saved this nights sleep, and probably many nights to
come...  :-)

Cheers
Jon

Klaus