Problem converting to HTML

[AlexBell]

I have often used Atlantis to convert doc and docx files to HTML as part of the process of designing an ebook in ePub format, and have not had any problems in the past.

I've just received a docx file which is giving me enormous problems in that in the HTML file instead of seeing paragraphs starting with <p> and ending with </p> I am seeing many paragraphs starting or ending with <br> or <br />. I've never seen that before.

I turned on the view special symbols to look at the docx file, and it seems that the person who sent me the docx file has sometimes used a carriage return, as shown by the backwards P symbol, and sometimes done something to show a symbol that looks like an arrow which starts pointing down and then turns to the left. I've never seen that symbol before, and don't know what it is called.

I'd very much like to convert this simbol to an end of paragraph symbol to see if that solves my problem, and have tried to use the search and replace option. But I can't get the carriage return symbol into the 'replace with' field.

Can you tell me please
- what the downward leftward pointing arrow symbol is called, and how it's produced? and
- How I can replace it with the carriage return symbol?

Regards, Alex

[Robert]

The downward leftward pointing arrow symbol is a “line break”. It is produced by pressing “Shift+Enter” in any word processor. In HTML code, it is represented by the “<br>…</br> tag.
To replace these line break symbols with carriage return symbols, set the Ctrl+H dialog up in the following way:

Find What: ^l
Replace With: ^p

Press the “Replace All” button.

You might want to take a look at this Atlantis help page: Searching for and replacing with special characters

Note that you can convert DOC, DOCX, and RTF files to EPUB directly in Atlantis. There is no need to go through any HTML intermediate step. Simply use the “File | Save Special > Save As eBook…” command.

HTH.
Robert

[AlexBell]

Thanks so much for your help, Robert. I'll check out the reference you gave and find out how to produce the special character for a character return.

Regards, Alex

[Robert]

If you click the button next to the Find What or Replace With boxes:



You’ll get a menu allowing you to insert the symbol for a line break or paragraph end mark with a simple mouse click:

[AlexBell]

Thanks again. I'm embarrassed to have missed that.

Regards, Alex