[bksvol-discuss] Re: For Valerie - how to replace incorrect paragraph marks that are at the end of every line in an entire document
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:42:04 -0800
I am somewhat surprised that bookshare uses rtf for this task. RTF
has a huge amount of underlying junk that just gets in the way. Would
have expected plain text with TeX style markup or similar.
On 9/19/09, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks! However, I just discovered in doing some digging that
> all paragraph marks in Word are not found by the the ^13 because
> of oddities of Word!
>
> For example, if you use a paste special to paste a block of text
> etc. into Word or otherwise use stuff from the clipboard from
> other applications, Word may display a paragraph mark where one
> is supposed to be in that selection but the unicode value
> underneath it isn't a ^13. The only way to find those and change
> them to a proper paragraph mark that is a ^13 is to in with
> visual basic. Yuck!
>
> So I'm going to stick with what I've written, as it gets around
> that bizarre little problem. Within the regular search,
> searching for ^p will find everything that has been assigned to
> ^p, whether it has been correctly translated to the unicode ^13
> value or not.
>
> Have I mentioned lately that I hate Word? grin.
>
> Judy s.
>
>
> Soronel Haetir wrote:
>> They are in the Word help files, the only ones that appear useful are
>> ^13 for paragraph and ^12 for section break.
>>
>> On 9/19/09, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Yep, there is a reason. I didn't know the sequence that Word will
>>> recognized for paragraph marks was ^13 and that it would work
>>> properly when wild cards were selected. Grin. So I've been
>>> using the tilde sequence to get that to let me use wild cards to
>>> replace a paragraph mark.
>>>
>>> Thank you for asking about it because you've solved a frustration
>>> for me with your post! smile.
>>>
>>> Soronel, do you have a listing or a url for a listing of the code
>>> equivalents like this one that are used and recognized
>>> specifically in Word that you can share? I've never found one
>>> that gave the ^13 equivalent for the paragraph mark when I've
>>> looked. There are other Word-restricted special characters that
>>> I'd like to know the codes to so I can search for them in the
>>> wild card search this way.
>>>
>>> Judy s.
>>>
>>> Soronel Haetir wrote:
>>>> Is there a reason you do the tilde replace rather than use wild-cards
>>>> and find ^13(a-z]) and replace with \1 ?
>>>>
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