Find & Replace Line Breaks with Paragraph Breaks

[Jeremy]

I would like to change line breaks to paragraph breaks in FP 2003. In Word I
would seach for ^l and replace it with ^p. This doesn't work in FP.

How can I seach for line breaks and paragraph breaks please? Many thanks!

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Try <br> Line Break tag or <p> and </p> Paragraph tags

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[Steve Easton]

It's not that simple, because in html a line break is only one item <br> while
a paragraph has an opening and a closing tag <p> </p>
The find and replace function would not know where to place the closing </p> tag
because there would be nothing to search for to replace it with.

You might want to take a look at Code view. It's pretty handy.

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[Paul S. Wolf]

It's not that simple, because in html a line break is only one item <br> while
a paragraph has an opening and a closing tag <p> </p>
The find and replace function would not know where to place the closing </p> tag
because there would be nothing to search for to replace it with.

You might want to take a look at Code view. It's pretty handy.

To replace line breaks with paragraphs, you would replace <br> tags with
BOTH </p><p> tags. (i.e. replace the line break with "end the current
paragraph and start a new paragraph") (<br> in html is the equivalent
of ^l in Word, and </p><p> is the equivalent of ^p)

 

[Jeremy]

Sounds like the easiest way is to copy the text out to Word, change the line
breaks to paragraphs, then copy the text back into FP.

Many thanks Steve and Thomas for your quick replies!

 

[Steve Easton]

That would work with the exception of the first opening <p> tag and the last
closing </p> tag.
As long as the user remembered to manually insert them it would work, if not I
see a problem.


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[Paul S. Wolf]

That would work with the exception of the first opening <p> tag and the last
closing </p> tag.
As long as the user remembered to manually insert them it would work, if not I
see a problem.

But wouldn't there normally be an opening <p> before the first <br> and
a closing </p> after the last <br> already?

 

[Steve Easton]

Correct, which would leave a set of unused <p></p> tags where the first <br>
was replaced
and an unused opening <p> tag when the last <br> was replaced.



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[Stefan B Rusynko]

Technically speaking the closing </p> tag is optional in Html spec (not in XHtml) and can be omitted
- so replacing <br> w/ <p> should work in most browsers
(admittedly ugly and not the recommended coding long term approach)
See http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#edef-P

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| Correct, which would leave a set of unused <p></p> tags where the first <br>
| was replaced
| and an unused opening <p> tag when the last <br> was replaced.
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| | > On 5/17/2004 4:21 PM, Steve Easton wrote:
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| > > That would work with the exception of the first opening <p> tag and the
| last
| > > closing </p> tag.
| > > As long as the user remembered to manually insert them it would work, if not
| I
| > > see a problem.
| > >
| > >
| > But wouldn't there normally be an opening <p> before the first <br> and
| > a closing </p> after the last <br> already?
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| > Paul S. Wolf, P.E. mailto[email protected]
| > Past President, Great Lakes Region, Federation of Jewish Men's Clubs
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[Paul S. Wolf]

Correct, which would leave a set of unused <p></p> tags where the first <br>
was replaced
and an unused opening <p> tag when the last <br> was replaced.

But look back at my original suggestion. It was to replace <br> with
</p><p>. i.e. insert a CLOSING tag followed by a new opening tag.

so

<p> text <br>
more text </p>
<p> still more text <br>
even more text </p>

would become

<p> text </p><p>
more text </p>
<p> still more text </p><p>
even more text </p>

And FP would probably rearrange that to:

<p> text </p>
<p> more text </p>
<p> still more text </p>
<p> even more text </p>