How to capture a regular letter between italic ones?

i have text 1 letter phonetic sign typed in regular style.

 

but words in italics should have sign in italics either.

 

i tried grep buy not built sequence check regular letter inside italics.*

 

thank you.

 

 

actual

 

ikʉ

 

required

ikʉ

*in 6 words phonetic begins word , in 50 words ends it: if search finds in between (not beginning or ending) enough , res=t may done manually

unfortunately, can't make lookahead , lookbehind @ format settings: whatever format set in "find format" applies whole expression. there way around this. in such situations replace italics tag can search italics text.

 

step1:

find what: .+

find format: +italic

 

change to: <i>$0</i>

change format: +regular

 

your example looks this: <i>ik</i>ʉ

 

now replace move italics-off tag after phonetic character. maybe this:

 

find what:  </i>([\x{0250}-\x{02ff}])\b

replace $1</i>

 

this 1 word-final phonetic characters, maybe more clever 1 fixes them @ beginning , middle of words well.

 

anyway, when you're done, convert tags italic:

 

 

find what: <i>(.+?)</i>

find format: +regular

 

change to: $1

change format: +italics

 

peter

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