[Hitch]

Hey, guys:

Here's a new one. Now, this is a "Word" file, not an ePUB or whatever, but we all know enough to know how stuff goes from A-->Zed, right?

I've received a Word file, which the client swears is a source file, typed by her. I suspect that this is bollocks, and here's why--the file is full of broken paragraphs. Now, that can happen from scans, from "save as Word" functions from any number of programs; we've all seen it. But here's the thing:

Virtually all of the broken paragraphs come before EITHER a lower-case a, or an upper-case I. ALL of them. There's one exception, out of several hundred broken paragraphs.

This woman can't SPELL HTML, must less use regex. Right? I mean, my brain immediately went to regex, but...not in a million years.

Anyone have ANY ideas as to what the hell could have precipitated this? ANY ideas, no matter how crazy? I mean, there's no rush; I finally went through the source file manually and tagged all the bps, but, it frustrates me that I can't do any sort of forensic reconstruction on it (trust me, I've asked and asked), so I thought I'd ask you, lads and ladies. Anyone here ever seen this precise result? The Is have it? (couldn't resist).

Hitch