How to remove "line breaks" from text between tags?

[paperback]

I recently opened an e-book where the text (between paragraph tags) does not go all the way across the page but breaks part way across. This obviously does not affect the appearance in the e-book viewer, but is there a way to easily "beautify" the edit window to remove these "line-breaks" and make the text-lines go all the way across?

[paperback]

There is an easy way to correct this on Linux. Copy and paste the text from Calibre E-Book Editor to the XED text editor. Select All, then select "View > Join Lines (Ctrl J)". Then copy and paste back into Calibre.

[kovidgoyal]

Use find and replace in reges mode with

\n

as find

and empty replace.

[DyckBook]

Originally Posted by paperback

...is there a way to easily "beautify" the edit window to remove these "line-breaks" and make the text-lines go all the way across?

Here is a saved search that I use to accomplish that by removing all \n characters between <p> </p> tags:

[\r\n]+(?=(?:[^<]+|<(?!/?p\b))*</p>)

[BobC]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Use find and replace in reges mode with

\n

as find

and empty replace.

However if you do this you may concatenate words resulting in spelling errors. So if say line one ends "met the purple" and line 2 starts "monster with big red eyes" you end up with "met the purplemonster with big red eyes.

You could do a replace with a <space> character and perhaps have an additional space if line 1 ended with a trailing space.

In the past if I had a book that was presented with multiple lines per paragraph I would open it first with Sigil and do a reformat and prettify using that before returning to Calibre.

BobC

[paperback]

Kovid gave me the answer I needed; \n and replace with a space to join up the lines.