Enrique wrote:
Lionel B Dyck wrote:
Thanks for this pointer - it is helpful but I still haven't found what
I need.
What I have is a text file where there is a paragraph for every line.
What I want to do is to eliminate these single paragraph tags from the
file and leave all paragraph tags that are at the end of each
paragraph and the blank line between paragraphs.
Hi Lionel,
For this kind on re-formatting, the AtoFormat/AutoCorrect way is the
right thing to do. Think about it not as "removing all paragraph marks
and restoring emty lines" as you would do in MS-Word. Think abou this
task as: "I want to combine all those single line paragraphs that form a
block into a real multinine paragraph with only one paragraph mark at
the end".
This is the task done by the Tools>Autocorrect>Options: "combine single
line paragraphs if longer than X%" It is the last option checkbox, I think.
Set the parameter to let say 80%. That means that if two adjacent lines
are longer than 80% of the whole line lenght (distance from left to
right margins), those lines are considered to belong to a single
paragraph, just a hard return was introduced in a verious life. The hard
return is removed and the two lines ara now a singel paragraph.
The parameter is user-controlled to avoid to combine short lines, like
titles etc. into the paragraph body.
Remember, the options are controlled in Tools>autocorrect>options. But
the re-formatting is executed by Format>autoformat>Apply
In this way you can merge together those sibgle lines in your text file
into multiline paragraphs, while preserving the blank, empty, lines
(remember to un-check this option).
Enrique
Thanks - I'll give this a try after work today
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