Possible to duplicate one paragraph after another throughout a doc?

[Michael Heth]

I have a long document that I now want to revise extensively. But I would 
like to have the original paragraphs inline with the new as a reference for 
what I was up to originally.

Each paragraph starts with an equals sin and a space

=(sp)my text

Is there a way to do this?

Original Outline

= Para 1

= Para 2

= Para 3

= Para 4

Ready for the revisions.

= Para 1

= Para 1

= Para 2

= Para 2

= Para 3

= Para 3

= Para 4

= Para 4

Thanks for any tips/advice/info.

M./

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Re: Match newlines that exist only after a line of text (but not between paragraphs)

[Johnny Ragadoo]

This appears to be what Text->Remove Line Breaks does in a single click.

But how's this for shorter and sweeter grep-ness. 

In grep mode, search for:
[^$]\n
or shorter yet:
.\n

Either one seems to find newlines at the end of text, but not on a line by 
themselves. Replacing with a space finishes the task.

But will Text->Remove Line Breaks do the job?

On Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 11:27:27 AM UTC-5 Neil Faiman wrote:

>
> On May 30, 2023, at 10:47 PM, ProjectGuru  wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a GREP pattern that can delete the newlines that exist 
> ONLY after some text and NOT newline characters that exist between 
> paragraphs For example:
>
> =
>
> ORIGINAL TEXT:
>
> [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms.
> Rowling, author
> of the Harry Potter
> collection.
> And now onto the show.
>
> [intro music]
>
> [John] Hi everyone.
> Welcome back to the
> Harry Potter podcast.
> I'm your co-host John Doe.
>
> DESIRED RESULT:
>
> [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. 
> And now onto the show.
>
> [intro music]
>
> [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your 
> co-host John Doe.
>
> =
>
>
> This search pattern will do the trick.
>
> (?s)(?<=\S)\n(?=\S)
>
>
> Command-F; put it in the Find: box, put a single space in the Replace: 
> box, check Grep, and click Replace All.
>
> Explanation:
>
>
>- (?s) — the string being searched is the entire document, not 
>individual lines.
>- (?<=\S)) — match the search string only when it is preceded by a 
>non-white-space character
>- \n — the actual search string: a single newline
>- (?=\S) — match the search string only when it is followed by a 
>non-white-space character
>
>
> When I apply this to your original text, I get:
>
> [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. 
> And now onto the show.
>
>
> [intro music]
>
>
> [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your 
> co-host John Doe.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil Faiman
>
>

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Re: Match newlines that exist only after a line of text (but not between paragraphs)

[Johnny Ragadoo]

My post seems to have evaporated. If this turns out to be a duplicate, 
apologies!

Text->Remove Line Breaks appears to be a built in feature to do what you 
want. Basically, blocks of text with single line breaks become one long 
line. Two newlines separate paragraphs. View->Text Display->Soft Wrap Text 
will then give a pleasant visual layout without modifying the text.

In my first post I suggested some regex patterns that on second glance do 
not seem to work. Once again, apologies!

On Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 11:27:27 AM UTC-5 Neil Faiman wrote:

>
> On May 30, 2023, at 10:47 PM, ProjectGuru  wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a GREP pattern that can delete the newlines that exist 
> ONLY after some text and NOT newline characters that exist between 
> paragraphs For example:
>
> =
>
> ORIGINAL TEXT:
>
> [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms.
> Rowling, author
> of the Harry Potter
> collection.
> And now onto the show.
>
> [intro music]
>
> [John] Hi everyone.
> Welcome back to the
> Harry Potter podcast.
> I'm your co-host John Doe.
>
> DESIRED RESULT:
>
> [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. 
> And now onto the show.
>
> [intro music]
>
> [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your 
> co-host John Doe.
>
> =
>
>
> This search pattern will do the trick.
>
> (?s)(?<=\S)\n(?=\S)
>
>
> Command-F; put it in the Find: box, put a single space in the Replace: 
> box, check Grep, and click Replace All.
>
> Explanation:
>
>
>- (?s) — the string being searched is the entire document, not 
>individual lines.
>- (?<=\S)) — match the search string only when it is preceded by a 
>non-white-space character
>- \n — the actual search string: a single newline
>- (?=\S) — match the search string only when it is followed by a 
>non-white-space character
>
>
> When I apply this to your original text, I get:
>
> [Ms. Rowling] This is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. 
> And now onto the show.
>
>
> [intro music]
>
>
> [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your 
> co-host John Doe.
>
> Cheers,
> Neil Faiman
>
>

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Re: Possible to duplicate one paragraph after another throughout a doc?

[Bucky Junior]

What about just making a copy of all the text and appending it to the end? Then 
use a split screen (top/bottom) to see the original and make your edits. That 
way you will have an easier time removing the original (1/2 of the text) and 
keeping the edited version.
Original
= Para 1
= Para 2
= Para 3
 Split in screen 
Editing version
= Para 1
= Para 2
= Para 3

> On Jun 1, 2023, at 5:40 AM, Michael Heth  wrote:
> 
> I have a long document that I now want to revise extensively. But I would 
> like to have the original paragraphs inline with the new as a reference for 
> what I was up to originally.
> 
> Each paragraph starts with an equals sin and a space
> 
> =(sp)my text
> 
> Is there a way to do this?
> 
> Original Outline
> 
> = Para 1
> 
> = Para 2
> 
> = Para 3
> 
> = Para 4
> 
> Ready for the revisions.
> 
> = Para 1
> 
> = Para 1
> 
> = Para 2
> 
> = Para 2
> 
> = Para 3
> 
> = Para 3
> 
> = Para 4
> 
> = Para 4
> 
> Thanks for any tips/advice/info.
> 
> M./
> 
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Re: AppleScript: Use Numbers.app to create PDF files from a BBEdit TSV file

[Johnny Ragadoo]

Unless you have a specific need for your output to be in Numbers, try the 
mail merge feature in Pages.

I think you can use your tsv file directly in Pages. If not, Numbers will 
open tsv files as if they were spreadsheet files.

On Monday, May 29, 2023 at 8:43:41 PM UTC-5 Alfredo wrote:

> Greetings, AppleScript Gurus:
>
> I would like to producea a batch of PDF files, each customized for a given 
> addressee.
>
> I can create a TSV file with BBEdit that contains one customized line per 
> addresee.
>
> I would assume I can use an AppleScript to feed each line of this TSV file 
> to a template in Numbers.app to produce the batch of PDF documents.
>
> I have no idea about creating such an AppleScript and I'm eager to learn.
>
> Thanks very much for any guidance.
>
> Alfredo
>

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