[scribus] Removing extra spaces??

[John Brown]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 08:50:55 +0100, Peter Nermader wrote:
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>> Or, to do it the way I want, have <period><space><space> be a special case
>> that the macro doesn't change.
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> Yes, that would in worst case just leave a few places where they would
> manually have to remove extra spaces after a period that is not between
> sentences.
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> So, how is your suggested code to do that?
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1) Replace <period><space><space> with something-that-does-not-occur-in-your-text.
2) REPEAT
        Replace <space><space> with <space>
    UNTIL there is nothing to replace.
3) Replace something-that-does-not-occur-in-your-text with <period><space><space>.

Regards,
John Brown.