Importing Theatre texts / Formatting Line Breaks

This is easy with Notepad++ as I’ve done the same with plays.

Load the file in Notepad++ and press “Alt-Shift +C” or View->Show Symbols->Show all characters

That will show you line breaks. They’ll look something like this.

CHARACTER A: blah blah blah CRLF

This may vary depending on your system. I believe Windows uses CRLF as a line break.

A simple fix would be to replace all CRLF with two CRLF. This is done in Search-Replace.
NB: Make sure Search Mode is in “Extended” mode first!!

CR(Carriage Return) is represented with a \r
LF(Line Feed) is represented with a \n

Then search for “\r\n” and replace with “\r\n\r\n”. This works well enough for me. You will need to experiment here depending on how your document was formatted.

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