A text pasted from non GN4 applications may contain inappropriate characters or text flow, wrong quotes and other problems such a multiple spaces, multiple returns, so the results may be not what you expected.

GN4 has a tool to clean the pasted text of inappropriate characters and set the correct quotes. You can call it from the Edit menu (Edit > Find > Clean Text and Set Quotes).

Note: when you paste a text from a PDF, it may result with a broken flow, i.e. every line became a single paragraph. This tool cannot fix that problem, as it is not possible to know where the original paragraphs were.To fix that, see Get rid of extra paragraphs.

If there's a highlighted block, it works on it, otherwise, it works on all text.

What get's cleaned?

•Multiple returns are replaced with a single return.

•Multiple space are replaced with a single space.

•Every paragraph starts with three spaces.

•All inline rules created by --- or === or ____ are removed.

•Double hyphens (--) are replaced by medium dash (chr 150).

•Two consecutive single quotes are replaced by a double quote.

•Removed character > (chr 62) from pasted mails.

Note

The script name is CleanText.

See also

Get rid of extra paragraphs