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LadyKate · 01-25-2014, 10:52 AM

[QUOTE=unboggling;2742113]I'm confused.

I'm not much good with html and usually don't fix books by messing with html tags, but I would've thought I'd want most of those tags replaced with 

I thought didn't have a closing tag? Or is an alternate form of ?

First, in XHTML all tags need to be closed. So becomes 

Now the search string I use is to find a break followed by lowercase alphabetic. That will indicate a break that is not a paragraph marker but just someone putting the hard return because they want the line to "look pretty" lol.

I use regex often in searching for patterns that indicate the line end is not a paragraph end before I put in the paragraphs,

01-25-2014, 10:52 AM	#83
LadyKate Fanatic Posts: 515 Karma: 1470724 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Quebec CA Device: android 4 (samsung tablet and asus tablet)	[QUOTE=unboggling;2742113]I'm confused. I'm not much good with html and usually don't fix books by messing with html tags, but I would've thought I'd want most of those <br> tags replaced with </p><p> I thought <br> didn't have a closing tag? Or is <br/> an alternate form of <br> ? First, in XHTML all tags need to be closed. So <br> becomes <br /> Now the search string I use is to find a break <br> followed by lowercase alphabetic. That will indicate a break that is not a paragraph marker but just someone putting the hard return because they want the line to "look pretty" lol. I use regex often in searching for patterns that indicate the line end is not a paragraph end before I put in the paragraphs,