Thread: Removing Returns, Preserving Paragraphs
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Old 06-03-2009, 12:22 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The reason that "textify" failed in Gideon's case is that his file has NO indication of "end of paragraph" - there is a carriage return at the end of every line, and no special indication of the start of a paragraph. There is literally nothing for any tool to "pick up on". It's a horribly-formatted file.

Textify works beautifully on the overwhelming majority of files. I must have used it on literally hundreds of files, with great success. It also has the useful feature of being able to create HTML output, with _ _ replaced with italics.
... how does Gideon know where the paragraph breaks are?

If he knows where they are, the same way he can ascertain it, so ought a computer program be able to... I think?

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