Was: Eliminating .txt file hard returns -- Frame and dialog boxes

[Linda Holder <Linda -dot- Holder -dot- lholder -at- NT -dot- COM>]

Elna,

To place a hard return in your Find and Replace box in FrameMaker, type a
backslash p (I suppose the mnemonic would be for paragraph )-- "\p"   Frame
uses a backslash in a lot of dialog boxes for various codes.

Regards,
Linda Holder

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> From:         Elna Tymes[SMTP:etymes -at- LTS -dot- COM]
> Sent:         Wednesday, October 21, 1998 2:55 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Eliminating .txt file hard returns
>
> Gary Robinson wrote:
>
> > A colleague of mine downloaded an important reference document from the
> > Internet.  This document arrived as a .txt file containing hundreds (at
> > least) superfluous hard returns.  Currently the document is 555 pages
> > long.  We figure it is actually about a third of that length without the
> > extra returns.  Does anyone have any suggestions of how to automatically
> > remove these returns?
>
> Depends on which word processor you're using, but both Word and Frame have
> the
> ability to do this.
>
> To check it out first, select a paragraph rather than the whole document
> and
> try the process below. If you get the results you want, then select the
> whole
> document and use the same process.
>
> In Word:  On the Edit menu, choose Replace. Then click the Special button
> (at
> the bottom of the dialog box), and choose Manual Line Break from the list
> that
> appears. That will put a character representation of the Manual Line Break
> in
> the 'Find What' box.  For the 'Replace with' box, again click the Special
> button and select White space from the list.  Then click the Replace All
> button.
>
> In Frame: Carefully select one example of the hard carriage return (you
> may
> need to turn on Paragraph marks to see it) and copy it. Then on the Edit
> menu,
> choose Find/Change.  In the Find box, select Character Tag, then paste
> your
> carriage return into the field.  In the Change to box, either leave it
> blank or
> press the Delete key. Then click the Change All button.
>
> Sneaky, no?
>
> Elna Tymes
> Los Trancos Systems
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