Hi An, Wonderful and simple solution. While trying it out, I notice I have trouble selecting the return plus linefeed combination. How can you do this? Or am I missing something? Thank you for your kind help. On Sep 25, 2011, at 5:04 PM, Anne Robertson wrote:
> Hello Paul, > > > > On 24 Sep 2011, at 21:21, Paul Erkens wrote: >> >> I have a text document that has a return, newline, announced by voiceover, >> after each and every line. While reading this text from top to bottom, it >> being more than one megabyte in size, this gets very annoying. I'm wondering. >> 1. Is there a way to find out what this is? Is this return, newline, being a >> carriage return, hex 0d, and then a linefeed, hex 0a, so is this a 2pair? If >> so, how can I take out all 0d's. In other words, because, if I understand >> correctly, Apple and unix both use only a linefeed as a ext line terminator, >> while windows does a carriage return linefeed pair, I want to get rid of >> the carriage returns while leaving the linefeeds, thereby making the text >> apple compatible, and as a voiceover user, avoid hearing return newline >> return newline return newline all the time. Can I do this with find and >> replace in text edit? > > Yes. Just select such a pair in the text, copy to the clipboard, then paste > into the Find field and replace with a standard carriage return. You'll need > to do a Return and clipboard it, too, to get it into the Replace field. Do > Replace all and you should be fine. Alternatively, you could replace them all > with spaces, and then replace all double spaces with carriage returns. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
