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Bluedan
10th September 2002, 16:22
As I tend to be a perfectionist about that I usually load the subtitle file I just created (SubRip !!) into Word to make use of the thesaurus to recover errors left behind by the usual "l"-to-"I" correction and the likes.
BTW, have you ever crosschecked different subtitle editors performing this task? Big "quality" differences!!
Anyway, mostly some errors are not discovered.
The issue here is that Windows' Word is unable to store the manually corrected .txt/.sub/.srt file afterwards without introducing new errors like randomly inserting blank lines/carriage returns or deleting some of them.
So converting one of these corrupted files to another format produces rubbish, and playback of that file is crappy as well.
So I have to do some extra work and let Subrip check .srt file which I use as standard format, for then it says "line xy is kaputt" which is then easy to spot inside the file. But it's definitely annoying when having a huge subtitle file.
Is there any work-around to make Word handle this?
Why does Word behave like this ?

Yusaku
12th September 2002, 15:30
It behaves that way because of soft CRs at the EOL. Anyway, you might try (not verified!) to Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and paste it to notepad - that might work (did so far for me when I had trouble exporting ASCII text from word).

Bluedan
15th September 2002, 16:30
Oh yes. I think I tried this once but forgot about it. This sometimes happens. Stupid.
Thank you very much for kindly replying.
Also I found out that messing around with the lf/cr settings when saving as 'only text' format doesn't help.
But do these errors appear so randomly not constantly. I think the distances between error occurrences are too long to match with a WORD page change.
So how does notepad differ in this?

Yusaku
15th September 2002, 20:17
notepad simply doesn't know about ends of line, ends of pages... it is simple program for simple stuff... exactly what's needed for this kind of task :)