Hi, I have a field, that I am exporting via a calculation that inserts Quark XTags. The calculation sets up fine, and I get the desired text. However, when I export I run into a problem - it cannot export a carriage return! In other words, if I have two paragraphs in the original text, it exports as one paragraph with, weirdly enough, a column break ascii character in the middle of it. Hrmm....

Has anyone run into this problem? If so, how did you get around it? The only solution I have now is to applescript a substitution in a seperate text editor, and I hate to involve yet another program in te whole thing...

Some work arounds:

Split the text in separate *records*, one record per paragraph ... export the so created records (downside: complicated, boring)

Export the text and use a plugin to substitute in the exported file the soft CR with CR + LF (downside: export files can be difficult to locate)

Use a plugin to create a text file and *write* directly your paragraphs into it

(downside: takes a bit to learn but allows to govern name/path of the text file)

What plugins would work for this? I am on a very tight budget, so... I hope they're not too pricey :

I had the same problem.

After I exported the copy through Filemaker, I would import the text into Quark, and do a find/change to get rid of it (the find/change character for a column return is c and for hard returns is p). Since this created many extra pages, I would then export the text as Xtags text, revert, then reimport it back into the cleaner document.