Re: To Macro or Not to Macro ?

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:58 PM, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov> wrote:
> 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
>

I'm aware of the ligatures and things like that. The thing is that I
often copy stuff from PDF to WinEdt, but most of the time, it's just
small paragraphs , so I think it's better to correct some minor types
than go through the whole pdf to text conversion...

And, by the way, I don't know either how could I live without format
paragraph... 

Cheers,
Danilo

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Dr. Danilo Zanatta-Filho
Research Associate
Dept. of Electronics
University of York
York YO10 5DD, U.K.
Tel: +44 1904 432395
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