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The World Wide Wade - 02 Jun 2008 02:51 GMT

When I paste text from a web page into TextEdit using the rich text
format, TE does a very nice job except for one thing: the spaces
between paragraphs disappear. Why does TE do that, and is there a
simple way to correct this?

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Howard Brazee - 02 Jun 2008 15:47 GMT

>When I paste text from a web page into TextEdit using the rich text
>format, TE does a very nice job except for one thing: the spaces
>between paragraphs disappear. Why does TE do that, and is there a
>simple way to correct this?

Have you tried it with TextWrangler?

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william mitchell - 02 Jun 2008 18:11 GMT

>>When I paste text from a web page into TextEdit using the rich text
>>format, TE does a very nice job except for one thing: the spaces
>>between paragraphs disappear. Why does TE do that, and is there a
>>simple way to correct this?
>
> Have you tried it with TextWrangler?

I had a similar problem pasting text from web pages into a mail
message I was writing in Mail.app. I believe it and TextEdit are
using the same library, so the difference in application shouldn't
matter. It might seem that The fact that I was writing in plain
Ascii, not rich text, might make more of a difference, but I suspect
that the same thing will work: I selected all the pasted text, which
was run together as one blob. I then used "Format->make Rich Text"
followed by "Format->make Plain Text" (i.e., Shift-Cmd-T twice, if I
could have remembered that). The text ended up lines as it was in
the browser.

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gtr - 02 Jun 2008 16:04 GMT

> When I paste text from a web page into TextEdit using the rich text
> format, TE does a very nice job except for one thing: the spaces
> between paragraphs disappear. Why does TE do that, and is there a
> simple way to correct this?

Because hard line-feeds were not present in the original document you
culled from the web-page. The line formats depending on the sizing of
the text box in which it lived. If you'd like to format it differently
you can resize the window in text-edit to suit your needs.

I wouldn't know why you'd want to hard-fix them at a certain width, as
you might paste it into another document where you'd like to expand it
a bit with a smaller font or enlarge it with a bigger font. Or
something else. Again, the easiest way to do that would be to change
the size of the vessel--the column size.

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