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Old 06-23-2010, 10:35 PM   #18
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Chapter breaks in TXT files?

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Originally Posted by steven522 View Post
I second the plain text. I have converted the books I read to TXT and threw a few simple line spacings in to allow chapter to break to a new page. I have been tracking down some older books I would like to re-read, and converting the RTF and HTML to straight text using simple word processors like ConText and note/wordpad for direct search and replace of formatting strings. If needed, then Word itself can clear end-of-line breaks that occur in the middle of sentences.
Steven,

Can you tell me more about what you do with inserting line breaks to force page breaks at chapters? I have some TXT files that do this and others that don't, and I haven't been able to figure out what the magic difference is.


Thanks,

Steve
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