On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:07:41PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 05:39:35PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > PS: is there any one-liner to add back one newline between > > paragraphs? > > As someone else said -- that depends on how you define a "paragraph" in > the file. If any time there's a newline you've got a new paragraph, you > can just use a simple substitution regex to replace all instances of one > newline with two newlines. If some of your paragraphs are already > separated by two newlines, you could just use \n+ in the matching part of > your substitution regex to indicate that you want any instance of one or > more newlines in succession to be replaced with exactly two newlines -- > if that doesn't screw up some other formatting you have in the file. > > In order to answer this question properly, we'd need to know more about > how you define "paragraph" in this context, and whether there are special > cases of non-paragraph formatting that might cause conflicts with > paragraph formatting while doing a substitution. >
precisely. in this case, every paragraph that is not on a newline wraps. so anything that has an EOL is a new paragraph. there are a few places that require different formatting; these are easily re-done thanks to OOo! > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"