Re: To Macro or Not to Macro ?

"Evaristo Arroyo F." <evarroyo <at> interlink.net.ve> kirjoitti: 
> En Wed, 07 May 2008 10:28:41 -0430, David Huffer <David.Huffer <at> csosa.gov>  
> escribió:
> 
> > 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
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Hola
> 
> Hi David
> 
> Can you tell me about xdfo applications please (I googleed "xdfp" but i  
> don´t find any thing).
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> Atentamente,
> Evaristo Arroyo F.
> 
> 

What if you make the correct search: xpdf

Olli the Greybeard

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