[scribus] Removing line breaks from text

[john Culleton]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:52:42 -0400
Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 07/21/2014 12:06 PM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> > I am trying to convert a text file to
> > scribus.  The file is formatted with hard
> > line breaks, and an empty line between
> > paragraphs:
> > 
> > line 1<cr>
> > line 2<cr>
> > 
> > line 3<cr>
> > line 4<cr>
> > 
> > I want to transform this to two paragraphs:
> > 
> > line 1 line 2
> > 
> > line 3 line 4
> > 
> > Is that possible in Scribus?  Or do I have to
> > manually remove the line breaks?
> > 
> > (trying to convert a LaTeX document to
> > scribus)
> 
> If I had to do a BIG file this way, I would
> probably load it into something like KWrite,
> where you can Find/Replace using regexp (so you
> search for \n).
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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You can do this is Vim/Gvim of course. Gvim is
industrial strength. I have my gvimrc file set up
so that each set of contiguous lines is
translated to lines of a given length or less by
hitting the f2 key. The code in the gvimrc file
is not trivial but you can copy mine:
-------------------------------------------
nnoremap <F2> 1GgqG
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