removing space at the end of line

[Lin Sims]

THAT is useful, and I'm going to put it in my how-to file immediately.

Thanks to you and Rick. I learn a lot on this list.

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Craig Ede <craigede at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Rick Quatro's excellent webinar on regular expression search and
> replace some time back I was able to construct the following reg exp search
> in FM 12 to remove a space occurring at the end of a line right before the
> end of paragraph marker. I've been using for it for awhile. I'm sure others
> have constructed something similar, but for those of you who don't want to
> mess around and experiment:
>
> Find: (?<=.) (?=\x0a)
>
> Replace with nothing. Of course, the Regular Expressions option has to be
> checked in the Find/Replace dialog.
>
> Earlier versions of FrameMaker would allow you to replace a space followed
> by an end of paragraph, but you had to replace with the paragraph marker.
> That would result in your paragraph being formatted with the tag of the
> following paragraph which was often not what you wanted.
>
> Hope this is useful to someone out there. I find that Word conversions
> often suffer from these extra spaces.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Craig
>
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