Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Ron Catterall]

1.  replace \n\n by qwerty

2. replace \n by a space

3. replace qwerty  by \n\n


On 5/29/23 10:20 AM, Kim Mosley wrote:
No, that doesn’t work here because there is a \n at the end of every 
line… and it is not soft wrapped. When I do what you suggested I get 
this:


The practice of yoga now comes in as a means of actually making this 
detachment from mental


construction a practical possibility. In order that this detachment 
not become nihilistic or otherwise


aberrated, and that altered states of consciousness not merely be 
substitued as objects of fixation,


the doctrine here introduces the principles of the relative and real 
natures of phenomena concealed


beneath the conceptualized description.

The relative or dependent nature is the nature of phenomena as 
products of interactions of


conditions. A generalized example of this commonly used for 
illustration is the interaction of


sense faculties, sense consciousnesses, and sense data. This is the 
raw material of the selection and


organizational process of mental construction. Since the faculties, 
consciousnesses, and data


cannot be apprehended in themselves, outside of their mutual 
interrelationship, there is no way of




On May 29, 2023, at 11:11 AM, Rod Buchanan  wrote:


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  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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On May 29, 2023, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Van Allen  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 
 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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Bruce Van Allen]

> On May 29, 2023, at 9:20 AM, Kim Mosley  wrote:
> No, that doesn’t work here because there is a \n at the end of every line… 
> and it is not soft wrapped. When I do what you suggested I get this:


How much text are you dealing with? Is this a repeating task? Do you have any 
control over the original texts you’re working on?

I would try to remove those line-breaks internal to the paragraphs as early in 
my processing as possible, or alter the form they come to me in if I can 
control that. Each paragraph (which might have multiple sentences) should be on 
one line with soft-wrapping off in the text editor (BBEdit).

Here’s a possible hacky approach, from looking at the sample text you posted:

Hacky Step 1: Insert newlines before “paragraphs”:

Search for an uppercase letter at the start of a line:
 ^([A-Z])

and replace it with:
 \n\1

BBEdit has great documentation of the above find/replace expressions, but 
briefly, 

^ denotes the start of a line;

[A-Z] stands for one character of the range A to Z (uppercase standard English 
characters, so I’m making some assumptions here);

() around the [A-Z] “captures" whatever character it found.

In the replace pattern, \n is our friend the newline, and \1 stands for what 
was captured in the search pattern - that first character of the line.

That will put a newline “\n” in front of what is likely to be the start of one 
of your paragraphs. So you won’t have to do that many times manually. But you 
will need to check it over, because this isn’t bullet-proof.

Step 2: Remove internal line breaks:

Once you have those newlines inserted before each set of lines that you 
consider a paragraph, you'll want to remove the internal line breaks with the 
paragraphs.

After Hacky step 1, your “paragraphs” now have single newlines internally and 
are separated by two newlines. So your search for the internal newlines would 
be for a “\n" surrounded by space-bar spaces, characters, or punctuation but no 
adjacent newlines.

Minimalistic search pattern:
([^\n])\n([^\n])

This finds a \n with any character NOT an \n on either side; the ^ inside the 
square brackets means “not”.

Replace with: 
\1 \2 

This will put the surrounding captured characters back with a spacebar space 
between them where the \n was. This might not be exactly what you need, 
depending on how those internal line breaks originally got into your 
“paragraphs”. Might be some extra spacebar spaces lying around.

So test on a copy of your file. Also turning on BBEdits “Show Invisibles” can 
be helpful for this work




— Bruce

_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_





> On May 29, 2023, at 9:20 AM, Kim Mosley  wrote:
> 
> No, that doesn’t work here because there is a \n at the end of every line… 
> and it is not soft wrapped. When I do what you suggested I get this:
> 
> The practice of yoga now comes in as a means of actually making this 
> detachment from mental
> 
> construction a practical possibility. In order that this detachment not 
> become nihilistic or otherwise
> 
> aberrated, and that altered states of consciousness not merely be substitued 
> as objects of fixation,
> 
> the doctrine here introduces the principles of the relative and real natures 
> of phenomena concealed
> 
> beneath the conceptualized description.
> 
> The relative or dependent nature is the nature of phenomena as products of 
> interactions of
> 
> conditions. A generalized example of this commonly used for illustration is 
> the interaction of
> 
> sense faculties, sense consciousnesses, and sense data. This is the raw 
> material of the selection and
> 
> organizational process of mental construction. Since the faculties, 
> consciousnesses, and data
> 
> cannot be apprehended in themselves, outside of their mutual 
> interrelationship, there is no way of
> 
> 
>> On May 29, 2023, at 11:11 AM, Rod Buchanan  wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 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  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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Johnny Ragadoo]

Hi, Bruce, thanks for your suggestions.

Affinity Publisher is really cool, but it's not the best for editing text. 
BBEdit excels at editing text.

I think I see how to do this.

The challenge is to edit with visible paragraph breaks that reflow with 
text window changes. After pasting into Affinity, a paragraph needs to end 
with a newline. Individual lines do not.

So here's a setup I'm going to play with.

In BBEdit's Edit->Text options, soft wrap text to window width.

End paragraphs with (shudder) two carriage returns.

Save the file.

Replace all \n\n with \n. Copy and paste into text frames in Affinity. 
Affinity is happy.

In BBEdit, use File->Revert to get paragraph breaks back.

The extra steps are save, replace all, and revert in that order.

I think I can live with that if my overworked right pinky can live with all 
the extra returns. :-)

I need to take another look at BBEdit's notebook feature. That might be a 
nice way of writing copy for an Affinity brochure, keeping all the text in 
one nice bundle.

Ooh, just realized - I have Keyboard Maestro installed. I might either make 
the return key get doubled, or make shift-enter two return keys.

Have a great day!

On Monday, May 29, 2023 at 10:38:40 AM UTC-5 Bruce Van Allen 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  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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Bruce Van Allen]

And do you mean that with soft-wrapping off, a paragraph is still broken into 
multiple lines with “\n”s? 

If I were to import that to a page layout app, I would first remove all of 
those interior “\n”s in BBEdit; otherwise they’ll mess up the page layout’s 
formatting. 

— Bruce

_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_


> On May 29, 2023, at 9:06 AM, Kim Mosley  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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Kim Mosley]

No, that doesn’t work here because there is a \n at the end of every line… and 
it is not soft wrapped. When I do what you suggested I get this:

The practice of yoga now comes in as a means of actually making this detachment 
from mental

construction a practical possibility. In order that this detachment not become 
nihilistic or otherwise

aberrated, and that altered states of consciousness not merely be substitued as 
objects of fixation,

the doctrine here introduces the principles of the relative and real natures of 
phenomena concealed

beneath the conceptualized description.

The relative or dependent nature is the nature of phenomena as products of 
interactions of

conditions. A generalized example of this commonly used for illustration is the 
interaction of

sense faculties, sense consciousnesses, and sense data. This is the raw 
material of the selection and

organizational process of mental construction. Since the faculties, 
consciousnesses, and data

cannot be apprehended in themselves, outside of their mutual interrelationship, 
there is no way of


> On May 29, 2023, at 11:11 AM, Rod Buchanan  wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 > > 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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>> 
>> 
>>> On May 29, 2023, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Van Allen  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  
 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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Rod Buchanan]

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  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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> 
> 
>> On May 29, 2023, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Van Allen  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  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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Kim Mosley]

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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Thus while the process of conventional description and organization of 
experience in terms
mutually coherent to members of a community is by no means to be eliminated 
from the human
repertoire of capacities, being necessary for human life, the doctrine of 
consciousness recommends
that it be recognized as mental representation and that the ability to 
transcend attachment to mental
constructions be cultivated. This is said to allow the development not only of 
extrasensory
perceptions, but of expanded and enhanced descriptive abilities to meet the 
evolutionary needs of
society as well.
The practice of yoga now comes in as a means of actually making this detachment 
from mental
construction a practical possibility. In order that this detachment not become 
nihilistic or otherwise
aberrated, and that altered states of consciousness not merely be substitued as 
objects of fixation,
the doctrine here introduces the principles of the relative and real natures of 
phenomena concealed
beneath the conceptualized description.
The relative or dependent nature is the nature of phenomena as products of 
interactions of
conditions. A generalized example of this commonly used for illustration is the 
interaction of
sense faculties, sense consciousnesses, and sense data. This is the raw 
material of the selection and
organizational process of mental construction. Since the faculties, 
consciousnesses, and data
cannot be apprehended in themselves, outside of their mutual interrelationship, 
there is no way of
grasping their objective nature. Their existence as individual elements, 
therefore, boils down to a
description--a relation of mind and mental object. Hence the principle of the 
real nature of
phenomena states that the imagnied nature has no objective reality in the 
relative nature. This is
what is sometimes called "emptiness."
A classic simile is that of a red dye painted on a clear crystal, making it 
look like a ruby. The red
dye represents the imagined or conceptualized nature imposed on the relative 
nature, represented
by the crystal. The real nature is the nonexistence of actual "rubyness" in the 
crystal. Reflections
of this doctrine are to be found thoughout Zen lore, and one of the major 
functions of Zen stories
is to help to see through and break up meantal fixations.
The Lankavatara-sutra likens the perceived world to waves in the ocean of 
consciousness. To get
to know the real nature of things as they are in the state of "suchness" or 
"thusness," unpredicated
reality, it is essential to still these waves of consciousness. The practice of 
methods of silencing
the mind to see reality without the imposition of conditioned representation is 
well known in Zen
Buddhism. This posed a drawback, however, which is also well represented both 
in Zen literature
and in the writings of outside observers. From the external point of view, the 
drawback was that
this exercise of quiescence gave the appearance of quietism, preventing 
understanding of the true
scope of Zen action. Within Zen schools, emphasis on stilling the mind also led 
some to regard it
as a goal, and successful stilling led some to remaind fixated on tranquillity, 
vitiating their
capacity for further progress. In both cases the problem was one of confusing 
the means with the
end. This confusion and its consequences are referred to repeatedly in Zen and 
other Buddhist lore
throughout the ages.
Little is known of the early Zen school in China, but in the record of a 
disciple of Bodhidharma's
successor we can observe the emphasis on the Lankavatara-sutra and the doctrine 
of
consciousness, as well as hints of future directions in Zen practice:
The mind-seal of the founding teacher is not a matter of concentration on 
ascetic practice, which is
merely an aid to the path. If you merge with the fundamental mind and make free 
use of its true
light, then ascetic practice is like picking up earth and turning it into gold; 
but if you only work on
ascetic practice and do not clarify the fundamental mind, thus being bound by 
aversion and
attraction, then ascetic practice is like walking on a dangerous path on a dark 
night. If you want to
clarify the fundamental mind, you should examine carefully--in the midst of 
sense impacts, before

Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Bruce Van Allen]

>> 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  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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Re: Add space between paragraphs

[Johnny Ragadoo]

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?
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Kim
>

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