Carriage returns changed to soft returns

Hi all,
I have a microsoft word document that's been written in "single spacing", or what I think is single spacing. Basically I've got it so that every Return hit, it leaves no space between the paragraphs (like a soft return).
When I imported the file into InDesign using the Place comand, all the carriage returns were twice as big as they were in Microsoft Word. Is there any way to change how much space a carriage return creates under a paragraph? Specifically I would like all my Carriage Returns to become the size of soft returns (Forced Line Break), is that possible?
I signed up to Lynda.com and I've done lots of research to find the answer by looking through forums but this is still my first week into using InDesign and I can't understand a lot of the language involved. The microsoft word document is over 3 thousand pages long and so fixing each paragraph one by one is a very last resort for me. Here's what I've tried:
1) Changing Leading throughout the entire document. This doesn't work as it ruins the paragraphs themselves, and didn't change the carriage returns much.
2) I used the Find/Change tool to find all Carriage returns "\r" and replace them with soft returns "\n". I was sure this was a genius move but for whatever technical reason I can't understand, it OBLITERATED the structure of my document.
So anyway, back to square one Been stuck on this for a good 7 hours now haha.
Cheers to anyone that bothers reading this, especially if you know the solution

Well, if you typed this Word document yourself, you have been going at it the wrong way right from the start. Compare with your post; did you insert a return at the end of each line, or did you just type on and let the forum software break the lines for you?
1) This leads to nothing. "Leading" defines the distance between lines, and does nothing special with Hard returns. The lines will still be broken as they were.
2) This leads to nother either. A hard return says: I want all of the next stuff on the next line. A soft return says the same. They only add stuff that makes individual lines justify.
You should (a) not expect InDesign to automagically fix badly typed files, and (b) replace each hard return with a single space. That ought to make your text behave slightly more natural.

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Hi,
I'm still running FM 7.2, I have 8.0, but we are not ready as a company to move yet.
I am capturing legacy FM information and need to save as XML.
This information will at times have paragraphs that used hard carriage returns to build in separation and make things easier to read.
When we export this XML, these hard CRs are removed and all extra white space is compressed out of the element.
This is causing much grief for the people reading the documents and they have asked if I can retain the hard breaks.
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l_obj-line = '<body>'.
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I'm using apex 3.0 and IE 7.There's your problem...
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Hi DAPAugust64,
The green "dogeared error flags" of the cells means that you paste numbers in these cells, but they're formated as Text.
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff837425.aspx
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When you download data into Excel and if the last column of your excel is a numeric field, XMLP will add a carriage return (special character) to your numeric field. This feild will be considered as character field by excel.
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original by XI receiver FILE adapter
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>
Hans Georg Walter wrote:
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For example, why would you delete the feature that allows a user to turn-on or turn-off the "carriage return within a cell". It seems smart of them to add the abilityt to simply press the Option key and hit return at the same time to allow a carriage return within a cell, but why would you DELETE the feature that allows returns within a cell universally within a table?
And then the Inspector got completely revised.
Time saved in creating technologies gets eaten up in having to relearn technology every time a new release is created that doesn't build on the previous release very well.

Adamo,
You are complaining to fellow users. It is best to post your feedback to Apple using the menu item
"Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback"

Storing carriage return and other special characters in a TestStand variable and passing to LabVIEW

I am using TestStand step to call a LabVIEW VI that writes commands to a serial device. The device expects a carriage return at the end of the command. I can create a constant string in TestStand with the carriage return, e.g., "ATA\x0D" and pass that to a LabVIEW string control which shows ATA\r and the VI works properly.
To provide consistency and flexibility in my code, I want to store the terminator character(s) in a TestStand variable. However, when I try to use an expression to create the command string, i.e. "ATA" + "Locals.Terminator", where Locals.Terminator is set to "\x0D", my LabVIEW VI string control shows "ATA\\x0D" which doesn't work. And when I try Locals.Terminator set to "\r", the LabVIEW string control shows "ATA\\r" which doesn't work either.
Is there a way to store special characters in a TestStand variable and pass them to LabVIEW as special characters? I saw in another post that if you edit the TestStand variable by pressing Cntl-Enter, it will store the newline \n properly and it can be sent to LabVIEW - that works for me as well for \n. But I need to send a carriage return.
I've attached my test sequence and the corresponding LabVIEW VI with a string control.
Hans
Attachments:
Special Chars.seq ‏27 KB
String Passing.vi ‏13 KB

Hi Hans,
Thanks for your detailed explanation and examples. In TestStand, change the String parameter's String Type to Binary String instead of ASCII. Then it will pass the desired value.
Cheers,
David Goldberg
National Instruments
Software R&D

XSL mapping of ARTMAS IDoc - carriage returns and white space

Hi all. I have tried all sorts here and am completely stuck. I am mapping an article master ARTMAS IDoc using XSL mapping and an extra carriage return and white space characters are being added to the FIELD1 and FIELD2 fields of the E1BPE1MARAEXTRT segment and I don't know why! These fields contain all our bespoke field values joined together so they are 229 and 250 characters long respectively, which I think is related to the problem. The mapping program looks like this:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<ARTMAS04>
<IDOC>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/EDI_DC40"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MATHEAD"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MARART"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MARAEXTRT"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MAKTRT"/>
<xsl:for-each select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MARCRT">
    <xsl:if test="(PLANT='D100') or (PLANT='D200') or (PLANT='D300')">
      <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MARMRT"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="//ARTMAS04/IDOC/E1BPE1MEANRT"/>
</IDOC>
</ARTMAS04>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I have a test IDoc going through this and the first 3 characters of the FIELD1 are "BIK". If I look at the source of the XML file, the problem area looks like this:
<E1BPE1MARAEXTRT SEGMENT="1">
      <FUNCTION>004</FUNCTION>
      <MATERIAL>000000000000895649</MATERIAL>
      <b><FIELD1>
        BIK</b>      0 0.00 T                                    000000001CARRERA FURY 04 20"     CARRERA FURY 04 20" 2005092420040622    X                    00000000   20031104 00200406140000000000                    0.00 0000000
      </FIELD1>
You can't really see it above, but there is a carriage return and 8 white spaces before the BIK. Where does this carriage return and white space come from?! Any help would be really appreciated - this is driving me crazy!
Many thanks,
Stuart Richards

Stuart,
I think I know the cause to your problem. I am not an XSLT programmer but based on searching this forum I found how I can acheive the carriage return at the end of my document. Your xsl statement is as follows:
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>
Change the indent value from yes to no. This should remove the carraige return. Hope this works for you.
I actually need a carriage return and line feed on my document so I am still stuck. All I have acheived is the carraige return.
Thanks,
Jim

JSP for Vcard cannot strip carriage return in the last line of the file.

I am using JSP to output a Vcard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard)
The following code works great in Windows but fails on the mac:
<%@ page contentType="text/x-vcard" %><%--
--%><%@ taglib prefix="c" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" %><%--
--%><%@ taglib prefix="fn" uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions" %><%--
--%>BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
<c:choose><%--
--%><c:when test="${not ((empty param.lan) and (empty param.fin)) }"><%--
--%>N:${param.lan};${param.fin}
FN:${param.fin} ${param.lan}
</c:when><%--
--%><c:otherwise><%--
--%>FN:${param.org}
</c:otherwise><%--
--%></c:choose><%--
--%>ORG:${param.org}
TITLE:${param.title}
TEL;WORK;VOICE:${param.phwork}
ADR;WORK:;;${param.st};${param.city};${param.state};${param.zip};
EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:${param.email}
REV:20080424T195243Z
<c:out value="${fn:replace('END:VCARD','\\\r','')}" escapeXml="false"/>After some tests, I discovered that Mac (I used Tiger, latest update, not Leopard) needs extra white space and carriage returns stripped off. Once this is achieved, the vcard will automatically import into Address Book. I have followed other forums which advice on using JSP comments as in the code above. But for some strange reason the last line of the JSP outputs an extra carraige return. How do I get rid of the carriage return at the end of the file? the replace function from JSTL is not working.
Edited by: shogo2040 on Dec 18, 2008 7:11 PM : I added more detail to the Subject

I originally had that END:VCARD without any carriage return.
But I still get an extra carriage return at the end when the JSP renders to VCF
I'm using Tomcat running on Linux.
I found this, article which implies (but does not explicitly say) JSP in general adds a newline to the last line:
http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/jsp/faq.xtp (But its not tomcat either, so maybe this info is irrelevant).
Edited by: shogo2040 on Dec 22, 2008 3:31 PM - changed rendered to VCF from rendered to JSP

File sender - carriage return and new line as endseparator

Hi All,
I'm stumbled with a problem to set carriage return and newline character as the endseparator (record delimiter)
Scenario: The input file PI is receiving has got few fields which has text in it and the content in this text has got newline characters. So to identify record separator, at the end of each record the combination of carriage return and new line is added.
In file sender content conversion I've set the folllowing parameters to achieve this:
Row.fieldSeparator : , (comma)
Row.endSeparator : '0x0D''0x0A'
Problem: In my sample input file, the first row has a text field with a newline character. When executed PI is splitting the record at the newline character in the text field (instead of combination of carriagereturn and newline which is set in the endSeparator paramter).
Pls advice on how to resolve this .
Happy Holidays!!
amar

Rajesh..Thanks for your quick response
I'm trying with the actual file being provided by the trading partner. I did not generate the file nor changed the file..
Before identifying the combination of carraige return and new line, the adapter is splitting the record when encountered with new line character within one of the text fields.
As you said it worked for you, you do have new line characters within fields in a record?..pls throw some light..let me know for any information..
Thank you
amar--

Carriage returns changed to soft returns

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