Thread: Automatically adding line breaks in editor?
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Old 02-13-2022, 10:44 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Fahara View Post
Thanks for replying @davidfor! To clarify, I'm not creating from scratch in editor, the book I'm trying to tidy up has been written and formatted in Word, but when I tried simply pasting into the body copy of an editor file none of the line breaks/paras carried across in the preview (though they show in the editor window) so I assumed I had to add manually, am I missing something? So for instance text that looks like this in Word:

“Nibh caedis quia Dui, rem usus d fruges pede, enim O rem rerum lius eum” Eripere eros ea sed louor ad iste Lacus. Equestri iste est custodes saevire vel hic nec, A landem modernas gothica ea ea lacus cum ab natoque parum.
“Eius hic iure at autem ex, eget’o ullo dis venenatis” Ab parum et pygmaeus. Pede sit arcu justo assum si devotiones id qui.
“Nam nibh ex sit mi hac, eum est noverca” Eu quae, species est mus neque sed similia supremum mi.
Methodo per E enim si lius sem Mazim class te dicta id ea. Apparet desiderat mi dis vitae gravatam.
“Sed nec urna?” Me quam.
“Quod, nisi, eum nam eius eu quas?” W quo hic. Se porta unde sint dui nec.
“Cum amet restat mus p modo ullo?” eu pede.

Comes out as a solid block of unbroken text like this:

“Nibh caedis quia Dui, rem usus d fruges pede, enim O rem rerum lius eum” Eripere eros ea sed louor ad iste Lacus. Equestri iste est custodes saevire vel hic nec, A landem modernas gothica ea ea lacus cum ab natoque parum.“Eius hic iure at autem ex, eget’o ullo dis venenatis” Ab parum et pygmaeus. Pede sit arcu justo assum si devotiones id qui. “Nam nibh ex sit mi hac, eum est noverca” Eu quae, species est mus neque sed similia supremum mi. Methodo per E enim si lius sem Mazim class te dicta id ea. Apparet desiderat mi dis vitae gravatam. “Sed nec urna?” Me quam. “Quod, nisi, eum nam eius eu quas?” W quo hic. Se porta unde sint dui nec. “Cum amet restat mus p modo ullo?” eu pede.

Any advice gratefully received! Would love to be able to just drop everything in, neatly formatted from Word and just leave it at that!
To paraphrase Nike, "Just don't". Copying and pasting like that is going to lose the formatting. And the previewer is showing what is supposed to. The line breaks are ignored. If you look in the code area, you will see the broken lines. You could use a search-and-replace to change the line end character to "</p><p>" and make sure you add the start and end tags as well.

But, what @Sunlite said is the way to do it. Finish writing it in Word. Then save the DOCX, add it to calibre and do a conversion. You will get a better result. The formatting should come across with no issues. If there are issues, you should fix them in the DOCX and try again
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