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Old 11-26-2007, 06:05 AM   #3
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Since no one else replied I thought I'd offer my beginners input after messing around for a few hours.
Thanks a lot - most appreciated

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Not sure what Office has to do with it? You mean as an automatic paragraph formatter by importing into it? Would OpenOffice help? That opens all the office formats. I don't have Office either.
Without MsOffice installed, I believed it was impossible to use BookDesigner - I'll check


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I've found it easier to just run the text file through a few sed filters rather than setting up a big perl script, it's the same search/replace as perl but you can get some faster results if you don't need anything fancy.
The same way I use perl-oneliners.
I'm not an expert at all in sed, but I'll give it a try, thanks!

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