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Old 02-03-2011, 09:39 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Manichean View Post
You could try to use the search & replace option to convert those breaks into closing and opening paragraph tags. If you, for example, had "<br><br>" between the individual "paragraphs", you could try to replace that with "</p><p>", that should create a real paragraph.
Thanks for the suggestion. This is the route I'll probably wind up taking. I'm certain it will help but it will still be somewhat manual because there are so many variations. Some sections only have one or two breaks, some have four or five. Some have breaks with certain class codes assigned, others have different classes or none at all. It's really a horribly, sloppy mess, hence the reason I want to try and clean it up. What can you do? Not everyone has the best ebook creation procedures.

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If there isn't much additional formatting you can try converting to TXT and then back to EPUB. The spacing when converting to TXT should be preserved and then detected as a paragraph break wheb converting back to EPUB.
I thought of that but there is a lot of italics that I'd like to keep and I'd lose all that. If it was as all just dumb text, I'd try that for sure.

Thanks for the suggestion. It's just not really an option here.

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