Book Wall Hangings - Flatlands - cube

Step 2 Clean up the text.

Use a text editor to clean up the text. You will want something that has a search and replace function. MS Word works fine. I've also used pages on the mac. Some of the more skeletal editors are even better.

I'm interested in having no line breaks or pagination, just a single, continuous line of the entire text of the book.

Some tips on search and replace:

you want to remove all tabs, and all pagination and break returns. it helps to "show pagination" (word) or "show invisibles" (pages) so you know you've gotten rid of them all. You can now cut and paste those "invisibles" into the search bar. In WORD, a carriage return shows up as ^p

if you put to spaces in the search bar, and one space in the replace bar, repeated running of that search and replace will leave you with nothing but single spaces between all of your text.

sometimes it is handy to replace with something else first to do a check, something really improbable like ZXY* then you can really quickly see whether its doing the right thing.

I generally do:
paragraphs first.
then tab marks.
then excess spaces. (see above)