Richard
Per your requests:
1. Plain text: no spaces
2. read_docx: spaces
3. read_rtf: no spaces
4. Not requested by you: copying from the Word document, then pasting
into “vim”: no spaces
The Word document was created by hand but #1, #3, and #4 confirm that it
contains no spaces. The offending entity here is textreadr:read_dicx
That addresses how the spaces arose. But, my question was not about that —
rather I was looking for a general fix when that situation arises.
Dennis
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> On Jul 28, 2020, at 8:07 PM, Richard O'Keefe <rao...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The spaces may not have been VISIBLE in the Word document,
> but that does not mean that there wasn't anything THERE.
>
> - What happens if you open the document in Word and
> save it as plain text?
> - What happens if you open the document in Word and
> save it as RTF, then read that using read_rtf?
> - If you do that, what does the RTF look like?
> - Was the Word document typed by hand, or did was it
> the result of some other process?
>
> The thing is, "our troubles come not as single spies,
> but as whole battalions", so I'm wondering what _else_
> is going wrong in the conversion process.
>
>
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