RE: To Macro or Not to Macro ?

On Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:19, Danilo Filho wrote:
 > On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 2:11 PM,  Salois, Martin wrote:
 > > I usually copy and paste from PDF into WinEdt and
 > > the text usually comes spread into several lines.
 > > Then I go at the end of each line, press "Delete"
 > > to merge it with the next one until get a single
 > > block of text. I know, technically, I don't have
 > > to do this because LaTeX not sensitive to CR, but
 > > I do it for aesthetic reasons. :-p Today I thought
 > > I would do a macro to do the job for me, since I'm
 > > very lazy. But then again, I thought, maybe this
 > > feature already in WinEdt. However, I couldn't
 > > find it. Does any one knows about it ?
 > That macro already exists. Select the whole text
 > and go to "Edit/Format/Format Paragraph" (or
 > CTRL-Alt-Ins by default).
 > > ...I was pretty sure that the macro  already
 > > existed, but I couldn't find it....

How can you live without format paragraph?!

By the way, you'll probably need to do a little more to tweak
the translation between pdf documents and winedt.  Ligatures and
things like that dont copy paste well.  If this is something you
do often you might consider an application like xdfp to
translate the pdf to text instead of copy and paste.

--
 David