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How to remove a line break after every line before narration

When copied text has a line break after every line, join only the lines belonging to the same paragraph before narration. Keep paragraph boundaries, dialogue turns and headings. Edit your available copy in an external text editor, since TGRadio has no built-in editor. Start with a short passage to test your replacement rule.

Check whether the breaks are actually in the file

Change the width of your editor window. If words move naturally onto the next line, you are seeing normal text wrapping and there is nothing to remove. If the lines still end in the same places, inspect formatting marks if your editor can display them. The file may contain manual line breaks or paragraph marks.

For example, a sentence continuing with a lowercase word on the next short line may suggest copied page layout. It is a clue to investigate, rather than a reason to join the whole document: poetry and lists can look similar.

Identify the boundaries you need to keep

Keep an untouched original and work on a copy. Locate real paragraphs, which may be separated by blank lines, indentation or a change of subject. Check several pages, including a chapter opening and a conversation. Copying from a PDF can leave different kinds of breaks looking identical.

Exclude headings, verse, lists and dialogue from a broad replacement. If you cannot reliably distinguish paragraph boundaries, edit small sections manually. Reconstructing meaning after removing every boundary is usually harder than setting aside uncertain passages first.

Join lines and inspect hyphens separately

Within a selected paragraph, replace each unwanted break with a space. Check for doubled spaces and words accidentally joined together. Use a wider replacement only after testing several different paragraphs. Editors use different search notation for breaks, so avoid applying an unfamiliar command blindly.

For example, “walk-” at the end of one line followed by “ing” should become “walking”. However, “well-known” keeps its hyphen. Decide by reading the complete word and sentence, rather than deleting every hyphen beside a line break.

Inspect page transitions

Read the end of each edited passage together with the start of the next. Page numbers, running headers or a repeated book title may have landed inside a sentence. Remove those insertions by checking the source, while retaining genuine numbers and headings.

Also inspect quotation marks, dialogue punctuation and sentence endings. Joining lines cannot recover punctuation that was already missing. If a sentence becomes unclear, return to the original page instead of inventing the missing wording.

Listen to the edited passage

Save a checked excerpt as a separate TXT file and add it through Books and Upload a book. Choose a voice and press Play. Import extracts the text; audio preparation begins when you start playback. Listen closely at joined lines and changes of speaker.

If you find an error, correct the file in your external editor and upload the revised copy for another check. Import does not automatically reconstruct paragraphs or repair line breaks. Once the sample works, apply the same verified method to the remaining text.