[gui-talk] Taking hard returns out of document

Sherri flmom2006 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 18:57:02 UTC 2009


Excuse all the questions, but how do I select left to right top to bottom 
reading order in the Jaws buffer? I am running Jaws 10. Thank you.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at loc.gov>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Taking hard returns out of document


> If you are editing in MS Word, you could search for ^p and replace with a 
> space.  Unfortunately, Word is going to wrap the resulting line in 
> arbitrary places.
>
> Before you do this, select the left-to-right, top-to-bottom reading order 
> and see what you get, both in the JAWS buffer and if you have Adobe Reader 
> save to a text file.  Sometimes this second reading order works much 
> better than the first does.
>
>
> At 11:21 AM 10/28/2009, you wrote:
>>I just received a large PDF document, which for my purposes was more 
>>easily saved as a text file. However, each word seems to be on a separate 
>>line. It appears that way in the PDF version as well. What is the symbol 
>>or character for the hard return and how do I go about removing them? 
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Sherri Brun
>>flmom2006 at gmail.com
>>There is a Braille literacy crisis in America.
>>You can be part of the solution.
>>
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>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer, Engineering Section
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