Dr Andus
11/2/2012 8:55 pm
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Thanks, but I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing... I was talking about joining the lines in a large piece of text with a single click of CTRL+J. You seem to be describing a more piecemeal process of joining lines manually.
Let's say I have the text of a 10,000-word PDF article gathered in a single NoteTab document where there is a space between each paragraph (cleverly inserted by Notetab), however the lines within the paragraphs have been broken, so if I had pasted that text into another application (e.g. Word), I would have had to manually join each line. With NoteTab it's a single CTRL+A and CTRL+J and all the lines are joined in one go, while the spaces between the paragraphs are preserved.
Perhaps there are dedicated PDF-stripping or OCR-ing apps out there to do this, but this NoteTab process seems fairly easy (and cheap). And usually I wouldn't copy the entire 10K words but a fraction of that (key passages).
Dr Andus wrote:
>CTRL+C copies and pastes the content, CTRL+A selects all, and
CTRL+J joins the broken
>lines that are adjacent only - which is important to
preserve the original paragraph
>structure.
Like Jon, I also thought of
Brainstorm when reading your description of using Notetab. Brainstorm has a clever
way of joining lines of text:
- Enter edit mode (F2) and go to the end of the line
-
Press DEL to join with the next paragraph/line (as you might expect)
- Here's the
clever bit: Brainstorm will join the lines adding a space in between, and the cursor
will then jump to the END of the second line, ready for joining with the next one.
Thanks, but I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing... I was talking about joining the lines in a large piece of text with a single click of CTRL+J. You seem to be describing a more piecemeal process of joining lines manually.
Let's say I have the text of a 10,000-word PDF article gathered in a single NoteTab document where there is a space between each paragraph (cleverly inserted by Notetab), however the lines within the paragraphs have been broken, so if I had pasted that text into another application (e.g. Word), I would have had to manually join each line. With NoteTab it's a single CTRL+A and CTRL+J and all the lines are joined in one go, while the spaces between the paragraphs are preserved.
Perhaps there are dedicated PDF-stripping or OCR-ing apps out there to do this, but this NoteTab process seems fairly easy (and cheap). And usually I wouldn't copy the entire 10K words but a fraction of that (key passages).