Hi Valerie.You explained your problem very well, and it isn't at all an annoying question. After all, this list was created to handle difficulties like this.
Whatever you do, don't just remove the line breaks, as this would produce an unmanageable document.
I think the character for a line break is ^l in word.Your problem is how to distinguish between paragraph breaks and line breaks. Since you are going to be doing a lot of find and replaces, make sure you have a backup of your file at this point. If paragraphs are determined by two successive line breaks, then first convert all ^l^l to something unique like ``. Then convert all the remaining ^l to nothing. Then convert all `` (your original paragraph marks) to ^l.
If paragraphs are broken with something like ^l followed by two spaces, then the same logic would apply,
Hope this helps. Bob"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make,"
Senator Edward M. Kennedy----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie Maples" <vlmaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:47 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] formatting question
I am working on a book right now that has needed a lot of formatting work. One of the things I noticed in trying to remove all the soft page breaks after determining the pagination that every single line has a paragraph marker after it. I typically only see that at the end of the paragraph. Isit okay to remove it or are they simply being used as line breaks? It leadsto a very choppy right margin and peculiar spacing if you use full justification. It seems it would be better off to remove them so the textflowed more naturally or could be managed better by people who might magnifyit. I am sure I did not fully describe this and it may be an annoyingquestion to people who do not utilize visual context for reading, but I findit very hard to proofread, so I can imagine it would be equally awkward to read the text in its current format. It most certainly does not actually resemble the actual book in its current state. Any thoughts? Thanks as always for your help! Valerie To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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