Re: The Glories of Plain Text

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Posted by sub
2005-02-11 01:36:10

[Stephen D.: How do you make the beginnings of paragraph beginnings distinguishable in plain text without inputting characters (tab or extra line) which would have to be removed subsequently before styling it?]

I assume you are talking about line space between paragraphs to make text more intelligible and show structure. My own approach is to use indeed an extra line and then do a Find/Replace All double “paragraph marks” with one in Word (^p^p with ^p) when formatting. In fact, one can use an additional extra line in chapter beginnings, titles etc, so as to make them double after the Find/Replace.

I just downloaded AceText and am experimenting with it, and haven’t yet tried its text altering facilities, but I imagine that this kind of automatic replacement should be on offer either by AceText or others. It happens by default in HTML text, i.e. that’s why I need to type Enter twice to get a paragraph here.

alx

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