If you are looking to change this
this is paragraph 1.
this is paragraph 2.
to this
this is paragraph 1.
this is paragraph 2.
This search/replace should do it:
Search: \n
Replace: \n\n
Make sure Grep is enabled.
HTH,
—
Rod
> On May 29, 2023, at 11:06 AM, Kim Mosley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks Bruce.
>
> Soft wrapping is off… so I don’t know if this can be fixed other than
> manually adding a space after each paragraph.
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> <example.txt>
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>> On May 29, 2023, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> if newlines were paragraph separators.
>>
>>
>> It’s easy to find each “\n” and replace it with with “\n\n", to provide
>> space between lines, but I have a feeling that’s not what you’re thinking of.
>>
>> Keep in mind that BBEdit is a text editor, not a word processor or page
>> layout app. In text, “\n” stands for a newline; but it doesn’t carry any of
>> the paragraph formatting that a word processor might provide via “space
>> before” or “space after” in its paragraph formatting controls.
>>
>> When I import text into an app like Affinity Publisher, Adobe InDesign, etc,
>> I rely on those apps to provide the paragraph formatting.
>>
>> Now, another newline issue can be that paragraphs themselves are
>> “hard-wrapped”, meaning that “\n" is used WITHIN paragraphs to make the
>> lines wrap. In those cases, my goal is usually to remove the “\n”s except
>> where I really want to end the line. That’s another easy find/replace op.
>> BBEdit provides controls to flip “soft wrapping" on/off, so I can see a
>> whole long line wrapped to a viewable width if necessary, but without
>> inserting newlines to make it wrap.
>>
>> But really, I’m guessing here what you both want. Examples?
>>
>> — Bruce
>>
>> _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 29, 2023, at 7:42 AM, Johnny Ragadoo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'd like to learn how to do this, too. BBEdit would be a fantastic
>>> companion editor for desktop publishing apps like Affinity Publisher if
>>> newlines were paragraph separators.
>>
>>> On Saturday, May 27, 2023 at 6:40:55 AM UTC-5 Kim Mosley wrote:
>>> How do I add a space between paragraphs? It seems every line is showing \n?
>>
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