Re: Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-21 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
There are tools for this task, because it's a common need whichever platform one is on. Here's a relevant article: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031018164326986 I have not used LineBrake myself, mostly because I generally use the Unix/Linux dos2unix (or unix2dos) tool which does t

Re: Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-21 Thread Ian Robinson
Hi Tyler, As well as using search and replace as another lister suggests, you can set TextEdit to save all files in the Windows format if preferred. Go into TextEdit Preferences, choose the Open and Save tab, then look at the settings for Plain Text File Encoding. Regards. Ian > On 20 Jun

Re: Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-20 Thread Tyler Thompson
You could also use regular expressions in a wide variety of text editors to replace all \n characters (newline) with \r\n (basically the carriage return you were looking for) Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 20, 2017, at 14:42, Chris Moore wrote: > > Hello, > I had the need to add carriage return

Adding carriage returns to text file

2017-06-20 Thread Chris Moore
Hello, I had the need to add carriage returns to a text file created on my mac so I could read it properly on my braille device. After several hours of experimentation from articles found on google, I discovered that the only way to accomplish this was using the “vi” program in terminal. Here