Formatting a book and working with returns

Question

I'm working on a project on Adobe InDesign where I am formatting a book and I imported my text from the Gutenberg project website. The text that I am using is from the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and I am trying to create my own body paragraph style for the text. The problem I have run into is that each line of text has a return at the end of it. When I try to add in a first line indent on each paragraph, because of the returns, it counts each line of the paragraph as the first line and thus indents the whole paragraph. This goes on throughout the entire text and I was wondering if there was an easy solution to getting rid of all the returns without removing the ones at the end of each paragraph to separate one paragraph from another.

Barb Binder · Accepted Answer

Hi Richard:Actually, all the content I looked at on gutenberg.org at has double returns ¶¶ between paragraphs, which makes the clean-up very simple.on gutenberg.orgPasted in InDesign:Run three consecutive Find/Changes:Find: ^p^p Change to ***** (pick something that isn't in the file)ThenFind: ^pChange to: [press the spacebar once]FinallyFind: *****Change to: ^p~Barb

maxwithdax · Answer

You could also use Grep to find and replace only instances where a ^p is not preceded by a period. This would get you very close. The only thing is that if for some chance the hard return at the end of a line has a period at the end of it but is not the end of the paragraph you would have to keep watch for those.

-Dax

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