[mogui]

Let me give an example:
My favorite file format for the Reader is plain old ASCII text. The title on the Reader turns out to be the same as the filename. I like that. I can make text files from many other formats. The middle font size on the Reader is right for normal reading and then I can go one bigger if the lighting is bad. I don't have to experiment a lot when I am in a hurry to read something.

So I got a book in lit format and converted it to lrf. The resultant line formatting was just plain ugly. There were sentence fragments everywhere and way too many spaces between lines. I decided to tighten it up.

I used Amber lit converter (abclit) to convert the original lit file to text. Then I opened the file in PSPad (see earlier post for source). I used the hex display mode to examine the character structure of the ugliness. I noticed that there were $0d$0a pairs everywhere. That is a carriage return line feed combination.

But at the beginning of every real paragraph there was an $a0 character. That is a space character with the high order bit set, I don't know why anybody put that character in there. It is not common. But I liked it because it gave me a way to reformat everything easily.

First I used search and replace to find all the $0d$0a pairs and replace them with $20 (space). Then I replaced all the $a0 characters with $0d$0a pairs. The result was pure beauty! The paragraphs all flowed well and there were no unwanted line spaces.

It took five minutes!