Remove line breaks

A visible wrap is not always a line break

An editor can visually wrap a long line because its window is narrow. That does not necessarily insert a newline character. Other sources, particularly copied document text, may put a newline at every printed line ending.

Text Cleaner changes actual line-ending characters in its source. It does not remove visual wrapping created by the width of the editor.

Separate wrapped lines from paragraphs

Repair paragraphs joins consecutive non-blank lines with one ordinary space. A blank-line separator keeps paragraphs apart:

Before:
This paragraph wraps
onto a second line.

This is another paragraph.

After:
This paragraph wraps onto a second line.

This is another paragraph.

The mode also trims ordinary spaces and tabs at line edges. It cannot know whether a single line break was intentional. The preview is where you decide whether the result still has the right structure.

Lists, headings, code, and verse need caution

Consecutive non-blank lines can be a list, a heading followed by a sentence, a poem, or code. Joining those lines can flatten meaningful structure:

Before:
Apples
Oranges
Pears

After paragraph joining:
Apples Oranges Pears

For one-entry-per-line material, choose Clean a list. For preserved structure, choose Keep layout. The app deliberately does not guess which lines are headings or detect a document's intended layout.

Reducing blank lines is a different task

Tidy prose retains one blank line in an internal run of multiple blank lines. It keeps leading and trailing blank-line runs. This is different from Remove empty lines, which deletes blank lines and is part of Clean a list.

A blank line in these rules contains nothing, or only ordinary spaces and tabs. A line containing a non-breaking space is not considered blank unless you first choose to convert that character.

Copied PDF text has limits

You can paste text that you copied from a PDF, but this app does not parse the PDF itself. It cannot correct OCR, recover reading order from columns, remove repeating headers reliably, or guess whether a visible end-of-line hyphen should disappear.

Soft hyphens are a separate Unicode character that can be explicitly removed. A printed - remains a literal hyphen. Automatically deleting every line-end hyphen could change a compound word or identifier.

Line-ending conventions and exports

CRLF and lone CR are normalized to LF in the cleanup engine. Browser editing/paste may already normalize newlines before the app receives them. Exports use UTF-8 and LF; they do not preserve every original file byte.

Final-newline presence is retained in Keep layout. A list cleanup can remove a final empty entry, so review that choice for text destined for a strict parser.

A useful cleanup sequence

1. Check whether you are handling prose, a list, or structured text.
2. Try Repair paragraphs only for actual wrapped prose.
3. Compare the start/end of paragraphs and any headings or list items.
4. Copy or download after reviewing the current result.

Read the starting-mode definitions or learn how space cleanup can affect layout.