Turning column detection off in OpenBook will do it. I once did that to
decolumnize a table at the beginning of a book and left it off thinking that
it wouldn't make any difference, since there were no columns in the rest of
the book. I found that every line had a hard return, and hyphenated words
at the end of the line had their hyphens removed, but they had a hard return
after the word and a space in front of the next word. Searching for a hard
return and a space and replacing that with just a space will get rid of
these, but I don't know of any clever way of removing the other extraneous
hard returns without also removing those necessary for paragraphs and such.
If the book had tabs, you could search and replace hard return tab with some
nonsense characters, then remove all the hard returns, then replace the
nonsense characters with hard return tab. Then you would have to go through
manually and fix up any that were needed that didn't have tabs, such as
those around page numbers. Still a big job.
----- Original Message -----
From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 4:54 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: a breath of snow and ashes
I am.
I just do not have time to clean it up. I do wonder what scanning process inserts all those end of line hard returns.
E.
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