Is there any way to use wildcards in PhraseExpress?

Question

I am using PhraseExpress v10.1.59d. Suppose I want the following:

### Introduction ###

to be replaced with:

<h3>Introduction</h3>

How do I capture the text between the prefix and postfix (i.e., Introduction)? What would the Autotext and Phrase content fields need to be? I don't want to prompt the user for input. Do I have to use variables? Or is there some simpler way? Something like:

Autotext: ### [*] ###
Phrase content: <h3>[*]</h3>

Answer 1

You can't use wildcards except for numbers.

Cursor macro

For this case I would recommend the {#cursor} macro.

• Title: Heading 3 HTML (or something else)
• Content: <h3>{#cursor}</h3>
• Autotext: ,h3

After typing ,h3, the cursor will be between the tags. Type your text, then press end.

This has the advantage that you can set your own trigger. Disadvantage: you have to create a phrase for every case.

Autotext macro

If you want to put everything in one phrase and don't need a special trigger character like the comma above, you may want to use the {#autotext} macro in addition to the {#cursor} macro.

• Title: HTML tags (or something else)
• Content: <{#autotext}>{#cursor}</{#autotext}>
• Autotext: h1|h2|h3 (add what you want here, but separate with a vertical line)

Answer 2

Work with {#autotext} which inserts the triggering Autotext.