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Old 01-07-2014, 03:41 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
Just for a chuckle, on this topic (you can't make this stuff up), this week I received a manuscript from a prospect (upon whom I unfortunately wasted a lot of time, but that's a bitch for another day), who, at the end of each "paragraph," hit the space bar to get the cursor to wrap to the "next line" to start his new paragraph. For 59,000 words. (I think I already told this story here on MR, apologies to those who read it if I did.)

So...I'm with Tox. Getting the clean XML is the major hurdle. I just don't know how to get there from here. And I test-exported a *clean* Word file to XML last night...and, ayup, good luck with THAT.

Hitch
Sounds like some people I knew at school; the other thing they did was press enter at the end of each line.
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