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formatting discussions

Apr 28, 2012 6:20 AM

Tags: #discussion #justify

Hi!

 

I'm working on a book which contains a collection of short novels. The book contains discussions which usually look like this:

 

- Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Curabitur sodales
urna eu ipsum egestas scelerisque.

- Suspendisse ultricies sollicitudin lacus.

- Nulla ultrices ultricies felis, a pharetra nunc lacinia nec.Maecenas eu purus magna.

 

As the full text is justified, if the discussion line is longer then the page width, it will wrap to multiple lines and all but the las line will be justified.

The problem is that it effects the whitespace right after the front dash, and if a single line text is followed by a multi-line text, the first words won't be aligned.

 

- Single line.

-    Multi    line   with    increased    whitespaces

due to justify.

 

The result is never so bad like here in the example of course, but it can be still pretty annoying.

 

Is there an easy way to fix it, preferably without converting all the discussions to lists? Is there a special space character which can't be expanded by justifing the paragraph? If yes, maybe a regexp replace could fix it.

 

Thanks in advance,

Mate

355 Views   4 Replies   Latest reply: mate_koch, Apr 28, 2012 6:59 AM
 
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  • Bob Levine
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    1. Bob Levine,
    Apr 28, 2012 6:42 AM   in reply to mate_koch
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    Use a hanging indent. Easily done with the bullets and numbering feature.

     

    Bob

     
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    2. mate_koch,
    Apr 28, 2012 6:45 AM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    Yes, but that's what I want to avoid, to read all the 200+ pages and replace the discussion lines by bulleted lists. Or is there a reliable way to do it automatically?

     
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    3. Bob Levine,
    Apr 28, 2012 6:55 AM   in reply to mate_koch
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    Do a find change for the dash and the space after and replace it with nothing…Then redefine the paragraph style.

     

     

     

    You did use a paragraph style, right?

     

     

     

    Bob

     
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    4. mate_koch,
    Apr 28, 2012 6:59 AM   in reply to Bob Levine
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    Hehe, thats perfect, I don't know why I didn't think about it...

     

    Yes, I did use paragraph style.

     

    Thank you for the quick answer!

     
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