removing space at the end of line

[Craig Ede]

Oddly enough, after posting this I ran into an issue I hadn't seen before while stepping through a series of such replaces.

Sometimes after removing a space in a table it reports "Not found." Yet if you click outside the table, it will continue to find such items. Sounds like a bug to me. The occurrence of multiple paragraphs in a table, some of which may have spaces at the end of a paragraph, may not have been adequately tested by Adobe.

Craig

From: Adam.Hollett at solacesystems.com
To: craigede at hotmail.com
Subject: RE: removing space at the end of line
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:59:18 +0000









Thanks so much for this. I’ve had a blog post brewing in my head for some time about how regular expressions can be very useful for editing. Have yet to write
 it, though.
 
I’ll be using this very frequently, I think.
 

Adam Hollett
Customer Documentation
Solace Systems
adam.hollett at solacesystems.com

 


From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com]
On Behalf Of Craig Ede

Sent: March-23-15 3:31 PM

To: framers

Subject: removing space at the end of line


 

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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