Joining lines from pasted text

[a.l.e]

When copying text from a PDF, we often get the text line by line.

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-script-repository/tree/master/join-lines

Today, I wrote a script that joins those lines in paragraphs.

If you copy the "scribus-script-repository" repository on your disk and add it to your script folders in "Preferences > Scripts", then you can simply run it from the Scripts menu:





Of course, you can also just copy the Python file in your own collection of scripts.

Please read the README in the folder linked above for the exact behavior of the script.

[utnik]

hi ale

thank you! saves a lot of work.

utnik

[NorrisFByrd]

This is handy. I paste a lot of text from old PDFs into our newsletter, and the broken lines drive me round the bend. I will give the script a try next time I have a long piece to clean up.

[Nermander]

In MS Word I used to just do a few search and replace.

Replace all ^p with ^l.
Replace all ^l^l with ^p
Replace all (remaining) ^l with space.
Then as cleanup you can replace all double spaces with a single space. May need to run more than once.

But ok, I eventually put these into a simple Word macro.

[a.l.e]

Indeed, depending of the content you're "joining" a set of search and replace will give you better results, since it will keep the formatting.

From a quick check, I don't think that Scribus provides access to the Search and Replace function... we will need to change that : - )