Text expander and clipboard enhancer tools

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 2, 2012 at 08:55 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Dr Andus wrote:
>>CTRL+C copies and pastes the content, CTRL+A selects all, and
>CTRL+J joins the broken
>>lines that are adjacent only - which is important to
>preserve the original paragraph
>>structure.
> >Like Jon, I also thought of
>Brainstorm when reading your description of using Notetab. Brainstorm has a clever
>way of joining lines of text:
> >- Enter edit mode (F2) and go to the end of the line
>-
>Press DEL to join with the next paragraph/line (as you might expect)
>- Here’s the
>clever bit: Brainstorm will join the lines adding a space in between, and the cursor
>will then jump to the END of the second line, ready for joining with the next one.

Thanks, but I’m not sure if we’re talking about the same thing… I was talking about joining the lines in a large piece of text with a single click of CTRL+J. You seem to be describing a more piecemeal process of joining lines manually.

Let’s say I have the text of a 10,000-word PDF article gathered in a single NoteTab document where there is a space between each paragraph (cleverly inserted by Notetab), however the lines within the paragraphs have been broken, so if I had pasted that text into another application (e.g. Word), I would have had to manually join each line. With NoteTab it’s a single CTRL+A and CTRL+J and all the lines are joined in one go, while the spaces between the paragraphs are preserved.

Perhaps there are dedicated PDF-stripping or OCR-ing apps out there to do this, but this NoteTab process seems fairly easy (and cheap). And usually I wouldn’t copy the entire 10K words but a fraction of that (key passages).