Thanks for the quick reply, Bob!
These are not line breaks, but carriage returns indicated by paragraph
symbols when using the command to reveal non-typed characters. Find and
search showed no line breaks. There are no indents, no blank lines, no
indication of any true paragraphing; just all single lines all left
justified.
Hope that makes sense.
Valerie
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From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-
bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 11:25 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: formatting question
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. Is
> it okay to remove it or are they simply being used as line breaks? It
> leads
> to 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
text
> flowed more naturally or could be managed better by people who might
> magnify
> it. I am sure I did not fully describe this and it may be an annoying
> question to people who do not utilize visual context for reading, but
I
> find
> it 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
>
>
>
>
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