[bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 07:25:15 -0800
Hi Sue,
What you want to put in the replace box is space a That way the
paragraph mark will be replaced by a space instead. And just to be ultra
clear you hit the space bar and then type a lower case letter a Is that
clearer? Sorry to confuse.
Mayrie
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I do not understand the "replace with" box. It said a)
Is that correct?
Sue S.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: removing extraneous linebreaks
Extremely interesting. Thank you. This seems far easier than some
systems I have heard folks use.
E.
At 08:24 AM 2/8/2009, you wrote:
>HI E.
>
> Here's the pertinent part of that note.
>
>
> The character string that denotes a paragraph mark in K1000 is \n.
>Very often text is OCRed with extra paragraph marks in it. You can do a
>find and replace to get rid of these. For each letter of the alphabet, you
>can do the following:
>In the find box of the find and replace dialogue type \na (that is back
>slash, n a)
>You want to make sure to pay attention to case sensitivity.
>In the replace box type (space a).
>This will join lines of text that OCRed into two paragraphs that shouldn't
>have been separate paragraphs.
>Make sure to use lower case letters or you'll trash all paragraph marks and
>be in a world of curses!
>I do this with every letter of the alphabet in lower case.
>
>Also, very often dialogue gets condensed into one paragraph where it
>shouldn't be.
>You can search for " " (quotation mark, space, quotation mark) and replace
>with "\n" that is (quotation mark, backslash n, quotation mark). This will
>separate dialogue that didn't get separated by the OCR process.
>
>Mayrie
>
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>I never got a posting talking about how to remove extraneous
>linebreaks Mary. Please re-send it.
>
>E.
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