[scribus] Removing extra spaces??

[john Culleton]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 18:01:59 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> >On 11/05/2014 11:31 AM, Ian Whitfield wrote:
> > 
> > I was just wondering if there is a method,
> > (or Macro??), available to check all the text
> > in a frame and remove any and all extra
> > spaces?
> 
> When I first read this question my immediate
> reaction was to suggest what I would do if
> faced with the same problem. I would open the
> text in the story editor, select all, and cut
> to the clipboard. The story editor is now empty.
> 
> I would then open a new, blank
> LibreOffice/OpenOffice Writer document and
> paste the text into it. I would use the search
> and replace functions in Writer to search for
> double spaces and replace with a single space.
> When finished I would select all the text, copy
> to the clipboard, go back to the story editor
> in Scribus, and paste it in. 
> 

it might be faster/easier to edit the text in
Gvim.

John Culleton
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