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Originally Posted by Patricia
You are quite right about the TXT files. Don't put them straight into BD. It will make every single line into a paragraph. Stick the text file into a Word doc and run Stingo's Macro; edit the text as much as you like; then put it into BD.
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I'm willing to bet the problem is EOL chars.
Under Unix/Linux, each line in a text file is delimited by a Line Feed character (Ctrl-J/ASCII 11). On a Mac (OS9, at least), each line is delimited by a Carriage Return (Ctrl-M/ASCII 13) Under DOS/Windows, each line is delimited by
both, in a CRLF combination.
This is a constant PITA for folks who must move text files from one environment to another. Various *nix programs like compilers are unhappy if they see CRs in text files. Various Windows programs, like Notepad, are unhappy if they
don't see them.
I suspect BD is treating CRs as paragraph markers.
My preference is a text editor that will let me specify what line endings to use when I save the file. My current standard editor is
Notepad++, a free, open source product that does that among many other things.
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Dennis