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 Find: ''([a-z])-^13([a-z])'' Find: ''([a-z])-^13([a-z])''
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 +Replace with: ''\1\2''
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 +Using a-z restricts what it finds to lowercase.
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 +You will likely have to do it again for lines that end with a comma, and possibly en and em dash. Look through your document for patterns of anything else it might have missed.
 +</WRAP>
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 +----
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 +<WRAP center round box 80%>
 +**PROBLEM**: Hyphenated words that break single word (not over two lines).
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 +**SOLUTION**: Replace with the same text minus the hyphen.
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 +Find: ''([a-z])-([a-z])''
  
 Replace with: ''\1\2'' Replace with: ''\1\2''
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 <WRAP center round box 80%> <WRAP center round box 80%>
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   * ''\p.+\s+[0-9OoIil]{1,3}\p'' ### Detect bad line breaks ###   * ''\p.+\s+[0-9OoIil]{1,3}\p'' ### Detect bad line breaks ###
   * ''[^\."?!]$''   * ''[^\."?!]$''
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