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| message from menyud on 16 Jul 2004 |
Sometimes when I import text to DW from BBEdit the text looks like it formts
correctly, but when I view it in IE, I see that there are all these invisible
returns. It comes off looking like a poem, if you know what I mean. How does
one fx this without going through each and every line?
Thanks, much!
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| Bridgetown Ben replied to menyud on 16 Jul 2004 |
menyud
Here's another idea for you to try. Go under Window > Palettes > Block and
select. At the top of that Palette is 'Paragraph'
So here's what I do as I use BBEdit for all of my text processes for a number
of reasons.
At any rate type out or paste your text into the BBEdit document and make sure
that there is at least one complete carriage return between paragraphs - there
can be as many as you want but you must have at least one.
Do a 'Select All' when you've completed your document and click on the
'Paragraph' in the Block Palette. BBEdit will open a dialog box where you can
(if you wish) assign an ID, Class or Style to your 'P' tags or you can opt for
none and when you click 'Apply' all of your paragraphs will be surrounded with
open and close 'P' tags.
Then just Select All, Copy and then bounce back over into your Dreamwweaver
HTML document (code view) and paste into your document in the appropriate place.
Also if this block of 'P' tags needs to be placed inside of a DIV tag after
you apply the 'P' tags you can Select All and in the Block Palette hit the DIV
button and a dialog box will pop up where you can apply an ID, Class or Style
and once you click 'Apply' your text document will now reside inside of a DIV
tag set with the appropriate markup (ID, Class or Style).
HTH
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| Lawrence TMM replied to menyud on 16 Jul 2004 |
The most sure fire way I know of to bring in content from existing files, be
they BBEdit or FrontPage or whatever is to select and copy the text in the
browser, past it into Notepad, do what cleanup needs to be don, which will
be very little as Notepad ignore 99% of the copied formatting. Then copy the
text out of Notepad into Dreamweaver.
Though it may seem like a lot of steps, you will find this saves you a huge
amount of time.
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