From: Woody Smith (woody_at_bitstream.net)
Date: Sat Apr 03 2004 - 06:26:38 PST
For Project Gutenberg books I use the "find and replace" & "replace
all" features most word processors have.
Most true paragraph changes have double carriage returns(CR) and the
line breaks have one, so I replace all double CRs with zzzzz. I then
replace all single CRs with a space. Now replace all zzzzz with a
double CR and you should be close to ready for newton press.
For many books I find it also helpful to use the spell check before
going to Newton Press. I do my final editing as I create the Table of
contents because the page advance in NP is slow enough to allow
scanning for weird characters or unusual line breaks.
Woody
On Saturday, April 3, 2004, at 12:03 AM, Rhonda Hyslop wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have finally gotten all the parts in place to make Newton Press
> convert a text file into a newton book without complaining - and I
> noticed that due to the line breaks in the PG etexts, the formatting is
> simply atrocious. Each PG line is about 1 3/4 line in the Newton Press
> window.
>
> I'm sure some people here have turned Project Gutenberg etexts into
> newtonbooks before - is there an easy way to clean up the line breaks
> without going through the entire file in a text editor? Anything that
> runs on linux or mac system 7.5 will work for me :-)
>
> -Rhonda
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