You can choose which type of line ending your pasted text will have. Pastebot has a “Change Line Endings” filter that is customizable. That being said, does it really matter? Does it not now, before changes, come out as you expect with regard to line breaks and spacing? (I would have new lines inside paragraphs where a new line is wanted, tabs to make indentations, pilcrows at the last line of the paragraph, no extra pilcrow after the last line, and set “after line spacing” for paragraphs to be, say 6pt or whatever. I prefer to use Pages formatting differently, but it probably is too much work to do the changes every week like you say you do. The indentation of six spaces (if I’m counting them correctly–hard to see) in Pages would more correctly be done with one tab and and a tab stop set where you wanted it, but as long as you use fixed width fonts it will work as it is, I guess. That way there are no new-lines characters at all. Looks to me that the best way forward is to change all new-lines to paragraph pilcrows and format line spacing for paragraphs to be zero space after. I cannot discern a pattern to suggest how to automate. Do you do exactly the same thing each time, or are their four “situations” that need to be changed each week? Exactly what do you do each time? (That helps define the algorithm). If so, how to tell the computer how to make that decision? And are some of the pilcrows also supposed to be space, or even newlines? If in fact the incoming text throws a “random mixture” at you, it sounds to me difficult to automate without human decisions.Īnd you do this 4 times a week. Or, are some of the new lines actually have to be replaced with spaces to to keep the two lines within the same paragraph. Simple as that? I can’t think that would be difficult for someone who knows Keyboard Maestro, or equiv. So, the “algorithm” is to replace all newlines with Pilcrows? So all you need is a Keyboard maestro that tells Pages to run the Find/Replace menu comment, add-in to the dialog box the Find “newline character” and add the “pilcrow character” to the replace box, then activate the “Replace All” button. Linebreaks are gone, replaced by paragraph breaks.
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