[TxMt] line breaks

Vaska.Txt txt at vaska.com
Wed Apr 20 16:37:39 UTC 2005


Wonderful, thanks for this fast tutorial Allan & Jonathan.


On Apr 20, 2005, at 5:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> As was already mentioned, you can do find'n'replace. Adding to this: 
> you can press option-return in the Find dialog to insert a return. You 
> can also select two empty lines and press cmd-E to place these in the 
> Find dialog.
>
> Additionally you can use option-shift-R (Filter through command), 
> select document/replace document as input/output and let the command 
> be: “tr -s '\n'”. The -s means “squeeze” the characters together so 
> there is only one. This is a very useful command to clean up documents 
> since it can take a group of characters, e.g.: “tr -s '[ \t\n]'”, and 
> it can also do replacements in the same go, so e.g. this command: “tr 
> -s '[ \t\n]' ' '” transforms the document into only having one space 
> for every sequence of tabs, newlines, or spaces (i.e. format the 
> entire document into one big paragraph).



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