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On 1/2/2015 10:50 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:54 01/01/2015 -0800, Allen Schaaf wrote:
Also, is there any way to keep true paragraph markers and yet
delete end of line markers?
There is no such thing as an "end of line marker", of course:
text generally flows naturally between lines as appropriate. If
instead you mean line breaks (as entered with Shift+Enter),
then these can easily be deleted by searching for \n and
replacing with nothing with "Regular expressions" ticked.
Actually I mean "end of line" created by using the "Enter" key.
I'm not sure what you call that marker in computer code, but back
when I was a printer it was called a paragraph marker and used to
signal when to start a new paragraph when proofreading. It was a
backward P with two legs and is still shown that way in symbol
tables.
This is a problem I often have and have never found a way to
do it. In W$%^ it is easy. I use ^p^p as the search term and #
as the replacement. Then I delete all ^p markers. Then I find
# and replace with ^p^p.
This suggests that instead of "end of line markers" and "true
paragraph markers" you are describing text which has every line
terminated by a paragraph break - in other words that each line
is a separate paragraph - and that what you are actually
considering to be paragraphs are separated by double paragraph
breaks - in other words by an empty paragraph. Is that so?
Correct
I get a lot of documents that are double spaced and either
triple spaced or double double spaced to indicate paragraph
breaks.
Multiple spacing is not a problem: that can easily be adjusted.
Often scanned documents will have a paragraph marker at the
end of every line that needs deleted for proper text flow when
a page width is different than the original or I'm making a
PDF for instant printing or a book layout.
This is not multiple spacing, of course - but inappropriate
paragraph structure. But you are quite right that it is a
frequent problem with material brought in from elsewhere -
perhaps from a web document.
Currently I have to open the file in W$%^, do the paragraph
thing and then finish my work in OO. Because I have to do this
(looong documents) I still have to use Windoze and I'd like to
move all this work to my FreeBSD machine.
Try this:
o Go to Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply. This should merge
single-line paragraphs into the real paragraphs you need.
The problem I have found with this is that I lose the real
paragraph breaks that I need to see in order to do formatting. I
do use paragraph styles to set the proper leading between
paragraphs. Sometimes I need to change the leading between
paragraphs to avoid awkward breaks across pages. Then I remove
the blank paragraphs.
o Search for ^$ and Replace with nothing. This will remove
empty paragraphs.
o Apply proper paragraph formatting (or, better still,
paragraph style formatting) to create spacing before or after
paragraphs.
Notes:
o You can adjust how the first technique operates at Tools |
AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Combine single line
paragraphs if length greater than 50%. Select the option and
click Edit... to adjust the percentage. Experiment (probably
with smaller values) until you get the effect you need.
o The AutoCorrect facility can apply other changes that you may
not want. You can avoid this by adjusting the AutoCorrect
facility (as above), or using Apply and Edit Changes instead
and then choosing the changes to accept. But the simplest way
is probably to carry out this procedure on your text first,
before you do any other formatting, and then to use Format |
Default Formatting (or Ctrl+M) to undo anything you don't want.
o In extreme cases (your "double double spacing"), you may need
to alternate the suggestions above.
o Your description above suggests that you still use empty
paragraphs in your final version to space your material
vertically. It is much better to use proper paragraph spacing.
No, I don't. Having done typography for a number of years I know
better.
Incidentally, this is how I advised you last April; I think the
advice still holds!
Sorry, I missed it somehow, possibly because I was caring for my,
now deceased, mother.
I trust this helps.
It is certainly several steps in the right direction.
Brian Barker
Thanks,
Allen
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