Hello board members
I have struck a problem not necessarily only relevant to Pages.
I downloaded a story from the net that is *.txt. I want to put it on my eBook either as *.txt or *.ePub it doesn't really matter.
But the story site formats in a really stupid manner. At the end of every line there is a line break (the reverse P with a double upstroke). And at the end of every paragraph there are two of these line breaks. Page seems to call these "invisibles" whereas in Word I would have called them "enters" or maybe even "carriage returns".
Now when you try to add it to your eReader it formats using the width of the eReader screen so many of these forced line breaks cause havoc and you find you have half lines of sometimes only one of two words with the rest of the text on the next line.
I wonder if there is a way to reformat essentially removing all these unnecessary "invisibles"?
I successfully did it using find and replace in a minute or two, but then you still need to go through the 900 page story to add spaces to separate words that have melded together due to the removal of the "invisibles". There are occurrences of these three or four times a paragraph. I just did 60 pages in 2 hours - grrrr
Anyone know of a tool that can do this?
Cheers, Mal
I have struck a problem not necessarily only relevant to Pages.
I downloaded a story from the net that is *.txt. I want to put it on my eBook either as *.txt or *.ePub it doesn't really matter.
But the story site formats in a really stupid manner. At the end of every line there is a line break (the reverse P with a double upstroke). And at the end of every paragraph there are two of these line breaks. Page seems to call these "invisibles" whereas in Word I would have called them "enters" or maybe even "carriage returns".
Now when you try to add it to your eReader it formats using the width of the eReader screen so many of these forced line breaks cause havoc and you find you have half lines of sometimes only one of two words with the rest of the text on the next line.
I wonder if there is a way to reformat essentially removing all these unnecessary "invisibles"?
I successfully did it using find and replace in a minute or two, but then you still need to go through the 900 page story to add spaces to separate words that have melded together due to the removal of the "invisibles". There are occurrences of these three or four times a paragraph. I just did 60 pages in 2 hours - grrrr
Anyone know of a tool that can do this?
Cheers, Mal