[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by ColMac

Wonder if someone can help an absolute beginner.

I have a number of books that contain many false paragraph breaks part way through a sentence.

An example of the type of code that appears is

</p>

<p class="calibre7">

This of course is the valid code for a correctly placed paragraph break in this book.

It normally appears with no space after the last word, and no space before the next word, and in most (I'm reluctant to say all) cases the last character before the error will be lower case. However, the first character of the following word may well be upper case when a name is used for example.

I have explained this exact "broken paragraphs" question many times over the years.

Here are 4 such topics where I go step-by-step and break down the Regular Expressions:

• 2021: "Regex examples"
  
  • (Especially my Post #689+.)
• 2020: "regex newbie search end of string char problem"
• 2016: "Delete paragraphs in scanned books (S & R with regexes)"

I even discussed it way back in:

• 2014: "How can I fix it when every line is a paragraph?"

(Of course, my newer methods are better and fix more things, but those regex are still useful to see/learn from.)