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AutoUnbreak v1.01

Name:

AutoUnbreak

Price:

Freeware

Size:

229 KB (261 KB Unzipped)

OS:

Windows 9x/ME/XP/2000/NT

Grade A Portability!

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Description:

AutoUnbreak removes line breaks from formatted (or plain) text input. This is useful if you want to reformat a text document, where lines have been cut short, e.g. when copying text from an Adobe PDF file to a word processor. Thus, the program removes any extraneous lines.

AutoUnbreak was designed to remove these carriage returns/ line breaks in a smart manner. For instance it will try to reconstruct any hyphenated words, and it will not merge lines if they e.g. are a part of a numbered or bulleted list. AutoUnbreak is customizable, and you can change its "rules" by altering the plain text files "merge.set" and "exceptions.set" to fit your needs.

The program gets its input from the clipboard, and should retain any (text) formatting. Click here to see a demonstration of AutoUnbreak in action.

 

  
As seen in...

"PC Welt" Magazine (12-2006)

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Notes

 

Customizing rules with AutoUnbreak

To customize AutoUnbreak's rules, you should open "merge.set" and "exceptions.set" in a plain text editor (like Windows Notepad).

"Merge.set" denotes which lines to merge. In this file, you simply specify which characters shouldn't be allowed to lead a line of text (i.e. which characters cannot be "prefixes"). The result is, that any line beginning with such a character, will be merged with the previous line. "Merge.set" should be saved in plain text format, but retaining the ".set" file name extension. The file itself should consist of a list of SINGLE characters. There should be no blank lines. The first line of "merge.set" is ignored by AutoUnbreak.

"Exceptions.set" lays down the exceptions to the rules in "merge.set". Every line in the exceptions file may contain a string of characters. If this string is found at the beginning of a line, that line will not be merged with the previous one. If the string is found at the end of the previous line, that line will not be merged with the following line. "Exceptions.set" should be saved in plain text format, but retaining the ".set" file name extension. The file itself consists of a list of SINGLE characters and/or strings of characters/words.

Among other things, "exceptions.set" is useful for preventing numbered lists etc. from being merged.

 

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Keywords: document, adobe pdf unbreaker, unbreak, cr, lf, linebreaks, line breaks,
remove redundant carriage returns, merge lines, rearranger, formatted text,
clipboard, word processor, quick, free

 

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