Auto insertion of <p> tags in text file

[pnielsen]

I am cutting and pasting a long Word doc into Coffee Cup. The doc. file has paragraphs indicated only by an indentation on the first line. There is no double return (white space) between adjacent paragraphs.

In Coffee Cup, even though the indent is lost, paragraphs can still be determined based upon the unequal length of the last line in one paragraph and the first line in the next.

Is there anyway this, or another method, can be used to "auto-insert" <p> </p> tags; eg. not having to enter hundreds (thousands) manually for an entire book?

[Excavator]

Hello pnielsen,
I don't have Coffee Cup but DreamWeaver will do it automatically easy enough. Just paste your text into the Design View window and it puts paragraph tags where they need to go.
I just tried and it's actually pretty good at it. I thought it was adding an extra <br> but the document I was copy/pasting had an extra space between each paragraph so DW even sees empty line breaks.

[pnielsen]

I also have Dreamweaver, and yes there is a menu import option to retain formatting from MS Word. However, I heard some Dreamweaver HTML tags are not recognized by eBook readers. Should be OK for just text blocks though.

Unfortunately, in my DW installation the "import from Word" option is greyed out. Will need to check out why. Maybe because Word is not installed on this computer(?)

However ... I just tried a cut-and-paste as you suggested, but with an RTF. Looks good. Maybe it would be better for this purpose to simply re-save the Word document as RTF anyway(?)

[Excavator]

It wasn't that complicated when I did it. I just opened a new .html document, pasted into Design View, went to code view there's paragraphs formated with <p> tags.

I have not tried the import from word button yet...


edit// -- File/Import/Word Document... becomes available when you goto Design View. It is grayed out in Code View where it is not available. It does just as good a job as pasting into design view.

[pnielsen]

When I try that with an RTF save from Word, there are <p> tags at the beginning of each paragraph, but <br>'s at the end. Then it is a simple matter to find/replace the latter, and reinsert any required <br>'s since there are far fewer of them ... or just work around them section by section. It also seems RTF carries through less of the Word coding.

My Word import button in DW CS5 is grayed in both views. Don't know why.

Thanks for your help in resolving this problem. Will save alot of time.

[Excavator]

Originally Posted by pnielsen

Will save alot of time.

I can imagine!