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Proofreading my thesis I had the following problem: Find all occurrences of “alert processing system” (should be “alert-processing system”), which can span over multiple lines.

I found out (thanks Diego!) a number of ways of doing this.

1. Writing my own perl program and defining `INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR` (`$/`)

2. Using `agrep`, in which I can use -d ‘delim’ as the separator. The advantage of agrep is that is can also find mispelled words (with a certain editing distance).

3. Using `pcregrep`!

I chose the last solution as it is the simplest one:

pcregrep -Mi ‘alert\s+processing\s+system’

IT WORKS!

Writing my thesis, I had to create a table with table captions located below the table. Without much thinking I looked at the [Latex bible](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201362996) and read about three ways of doing it.

The solution I chose was to use a package `threeparttable’, which did exactly what I wanted.
Here’s my code:

\usepackage{threeparttable}

\begin{table}[htb]
\centering
\begin{threeparttable}
\caption{Caption.}
\begin{tabulary}{\linewidth}{|L|C|}
\hline a\tnote{a} & b\tnote{b} \\
\hline
\end{tabulary}
\begin{tablenotes}[para]
\scriptsize
\item[a] Footnote a.
\item[b] Footnote b.
\end{tablenotes}
\label{table:ml_requirements}
\end{threeparttable}
\end{table}