Hi Tim,
ding ding ding!!
that did the job thanks. I did not need the file to tap dance, just read
without pausing in strange ways.
Will remember fmt in future to be sure.
Thanks again,
Kare
On Fri, 7 Jul 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Tim here. You could try running it through the "fmt" utility to
reformat paragraphs, assuming each paragraph has a blank line between
it. To reformat it to 80-columns wide, you could do
$ fmt -80 < short_lines.txt > nice_and_wide.txt
My version here has a maximum allowed width of 2500 apparently, in
case you want to try and make them as long as possible.
If that doesn't do what you want, you'd have to provide a sample
excerpt of the file (or redacted text in a similar format, especially
when it comes to line-breaks and paragraph breaks) to test against.
But hopefully that above invocation solves it for you
-tim
On July 7, 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
Hi All,
We have both editors here at shellworld. Here is the situation.
using pdftotext I converted a large file. the resulting text
though has very very short lines with hrt, return keys at the end
of them. As if the file was intended to be read in a very small
space. I repaired a file like this once, but cannot remember how.
Any tips?
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