page formatting

[Willis]

I'm working on a rather large file (230+ pages)and I've noticed that many pages have a blank line at the top of the page before the text begins.  Is there some way I can get every each page to begin with a line of text rather than a blank line?  I can do this manually by backspacing the first line of text to the top of the page but I'm still editing the document and when I make changes the line I backspace sometimes changes so it is no longer the first line on the page and that messes up my format.

[admin]

Atlantis never inserts blank lines itself. Probably you inserted them yourself, or they were contained by the original document.<br><br>If you use blank lines/paragraphs to separate paragraphs of text, I could suggest a more professional way. You could remove all empty paragraphs (replace "^p^p" with "^p"). Then apply "Space before/after paragraph" to the whole document through the "Paragraph format" dialog (Ctrl+G).

[luha]

I sometimes import documents that are formatted with a line break (^p) after each line, and two line breaks(^p^p) after each paragraph. I want to have a line break after each paragraph, and nowhere else. If I click "Join paragraphs" I get one single paragraph through the whole document. I can get where I want by first changing the ^p^p's into a character which I am not likely to find in the text, like ¬ (Alt+0172) (What on earth is that character meaning, anyway?) then replacing all line breaks with spaces, and at last all the ¬'s back into ^p's. This is cumbersome. Is there an easier way to do this?<br>

[admin]

I could not suggest a better way. Probably your solution is the best possible one.

[Max_Quordlepleen]

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<br>I could not suggest a better way. Probably your solution is the best possible one.<br>

<br><br>The solution mentioned would not be at all cumbersome if one could write a macro to automate the process. &nbsp;;) :-*

[luha]

A couple of eternities ago I complained about a problem:

I sometimes import documents that are formatted with a line break (^p) after each line, and two line breaks(^p^p) after each paragraph. I want to have a line break after each paragraph, and nowhere else. If I click "Join paragraphs" I get one single paragraph through the whole document. (...) Is there an easier way to do this?

You solved this problem in the new Atlantis beta (1.5.2) Thank you very much!