Improving the Form Paragraph macro

[vitaka]

How could I modify the Form Paragraph macro (Find and Replace '(\S)[\t\x20]*\n(?![\n>])', '\1\x20', 'EasS') so that it first removes blank lines, as in the Add Remove Blank Lines macro, so that I can form a paragraph even across paragraphs that contain blank lines?

[martin]

You could go about this two ways. The first would be to just combine the relevant lines of code from both macros and run them in succession:

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# First delete all blank paragraphs
Find and Replace ‘\n\n+’, ‘\n’, ‘EasS’

# Combines selected lines into one paragraph
Find and Replace '(\S)[\t\x20]*\n(?![\n>])\x20*', '\1\x20', 'EasS'

Or you could modify the "Form Paragraph" search expression so that it matches empty paragraphs as well:

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Find and Replace '(\S)[\t\x20\n]+(?!>)\x20*', '\1\x20', 'EasS'

[vitaka]

Awesome! I like the second solution more elegant. Thanks!