[bksvol-discuss] Re: Fw: clearing out line breaks
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:09:24 -0600
Dave,
I've already got a couple of yours saved. I've been meaning to tell you
that OpenBook's been working better since I turned off it's speech and
switch to using JAWS with it. I saved the one about switching to Natural
Voices in OpenBook, too.
I didn't bother to save the message, but I've already gone in and deleted
COM to CORN in the OCR correction dictionary, too. Now I know why I had so
much of a problem with that in the Honorverse short stories and Generation
Warriors. I need to take some time and go through the dictionary to see if
there's other entries that are giving me problems. I suspect that there's a
NEEDLER for NEEDIER in there since I kept having to change NEEDIER back to
NEEDLER in the three books I submitted this weekend.
Gerald
Gerald
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Hi Gerald,
Thanks for the info.
I have to admit, my recommendations, and cautions, for doing global
replaces are generic in nature. While I use MS Word, I do so only
reluctantly. I haven't really found a word processor that I could say I
really like since DOS days and Word Perfect 5.1P. So ok, I'm a dinosaur.
I will however, move your message to my saved mail mailbox in case I want
to refer to it in the future.
Dave
At 12:07 PM 3/14/2005, you wrote:
>OK, I tried to stay out of this because I knew if I got started, I'd have
>trouble stopping <smile>.
>
>There aren't always Manual Line Breaks at the end of lines. Sometimes it's
>Paragraph Markers. That's why you need to look to see what you're dealing
>with like Kelly said. You can do this with Ctrl-Shift-8 in Word.
>
>Paragraph Markers (^p) are what you get when you press Enter in Word. You
>get Manual Line Breaks by pressing Shift-Enter in Word.
>
>Some other handy symbols to know are ^m for Manual Page Breaks
(Ctrl-Enter),
>^t for tab, and ^w for whitespace. For those of you who aren't familiar
>with the term whitespace, it's the invisible characters between words like
>spaces and tabs.
>
>If you decide to remove line feeds, then you may want to remove the
>whitespace at the beginning and end of lines before removing ^p's or ^l's
>from the end of the lines to prevent you from getting multiple spaces
>between words. Also, since you can't be guaranteed that there are spaces
at
>the end of lines without checking every individual line, then it's better
to
>remove the white space at the beginning and end of the line, then replace
>the ^l or ^p with a Space instead of nothing. This will keep you from
>concatenating two words by accident and getting multiple spaces between
>words. To remove whitespace only at the beginning or end of a line when
>Paragraph Markers are at the end of lines, replace ^p^w with ^p or ^w^p
with
>^p. You could also replace ^w^p^w with ^p if you want to do both at the
>same time.
>
>If you do remove the whitespace at the beginning or end of lines, then you
>will not have whitespace on blank lines and can remove multiple blank lines
>by doing something like replacing ^p^p^p with ^p^p. This doesn't work for
>blank lines at the top of a page. For that you'll need to do something
like
>replacing ^m^p^p with ^m^p. Any time you set out to remove multiple blank
>lines, you will want to continue doing the search and replace until Word
>tells you that no changes were made.
>
>The reason I used the Paragraph Markers in the example above is that if
>you're dealing with Paragraph Markers at the end of lines, and you remove
>multiple blank lines, then you can replace two consecutive Paragraph
Markers
>with Manual Line Breaks (^p^p with ^l^l), then remove the Paragraph Markers
>at the end of the lines, then change the Manual Line Breaks back to
>Paragraph Markers. Of course, this would only work if your document
happens
>to have blank lines between paragraphs.
>
>In case you didn't realize it. You can also add a blank line to the top
and
>bottom of a page by replacing ^m with ^p^m^p. This may cause you to have
>one or more multiple blank lines at the top or bottom of a page though, but
>you should already be able to deal with that from an earlier example. If
>you do decide to add or delete blank lines at the top or bottom of pages,
>then I'd suggest doing this before you strip headers so you can check every
>page as you go.
>
>If you do decide to make changes using a global search and replace, then
>take precautions like Kelly said and make a backup copy of the file before
>you start experimenting with it. Also, like Sarah said, read through it,
>(or at the very least skim through it and spot check a large part of it)
>after making global search and replaces. Also, spell check it again after
>doing the global search and replaces. like Tony said. And, not to leave
out
>Dave, you can get yourself into trouble quickly if you're not careful. As
>he said, there's no more accurate way than doing it manually. The only
>problem with that is that it's tedious. OK, did I forget to acknowledge
>anyone? <smile>
>
>Also, you don't have to hit Alt-E E to get to the Search and Replace dialog
>box in Word. Ctrl-H will also take you there.
>
>See, I told you I'd have a problem stopping once I got started <smile>.
>
>OK, Sue, I think you wanted to live dangerously and cause a lot of trouble
>this week. This should help you get started. <grin>
>
>Gerald
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>
>
>Hi list. I'll just add that to do a similar thing with Word, or at least
>Word 2000, search for ^l to find the line breaks. One really easy way to
>fix split words is to go into the find and replace dialogue with Alt, E,
>E. Search for the following in the find edit box:
>
>-^l
>
>Replace with nothing. Instantly your split words are gone. This also
>takes out the line break, so you might have lines with only one or two
>words on them. I don't have a good way to solve that. Also make sure you
>do a spell check because some compound words that should be hyphenated will
>need to have the dash put back in, like "twentyone" instead of
"twenty-one."
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