Ypo writes: > Hi > > I am copy-pasting e-books into org-mode to read and study them. > > Usually, words come hyphenated, like "ato- mized", that I wanted to > transform into "atomized". > > I am trying with query replace, but I am starting to think that it is > not the correct tool for this job. > I tried "query-replace [a-z]-" but I don't know how to exclude the > letter before the "-". > > What would you advise?
I think it will be more practical for you to use pandoc: With this command you can convert an epub format to org: pandoc my-epub.epub -o my.epub.org (https://pandoc.org) You can also install calibre and convert your epubs to plain text from there. Best regards, Juan Manuel