To assist with your content formatting issues, I recommend a systematic approach to identify and correct the problems. Here’s a step-by-step guide:
1. **Identify Ran Together Words**: Use regular expressions to find and fix words that are run together. Look for patterns like lowercase followed by uppercase letters without spaces and insert a space.
2. **Character Encoding**: Ensure your content is using UTF-8 encoding. This can usually be set in your text editor or via a “find and replace” operation to fix common encoding issues such as “’” should be replaced with an apostrophe, and so on.
3. **Remove Extraneous Text**: Search for the pattern “Years Past” followed by any non-space characters and remove them. You can use a regular expression like `Years\sPast.*` to identify and delete such text blocks.
4. **Fix Lists**: For lists that have been run together, look for patterns that imply list items like numbers followed by text or bullet points that lack spaces. Add line breaks or spaces to properly format these items.
You can apply these corrections using a script or manually through a text editor with find-and-replace functionality:
– **Ran together words**: Regular expression like `([a-z])([A-Z])` and replace with `$1 $2`.
– **Encoding fixes**: Replace known faulty patterns with correct punctuation or symbols.
– **Remove extraneous text**: Use regex `Years\sPast.*` and replace with an empty string.
– **Lists**: Identify common list indicators and manually or programmatically add spaces or line breaks.
This method should help cleanse your content for import into WordPress.
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