How to add an empty line after every line?

[Nico Darko]

Hi,
Does anyone know how I can add an empty line underneath every line of my files? The idea is to have the subtitles appear slightly higher on the screen when I play my files on my blu-ray player, and this is the only way I found to do it (outside of remuxing the video files).

I looked for a way to do that with subtitle edit, and batch convert the files, but I can't find a way.

[pcspeak]

This seems to work. The space between the control characters (\n) is a hard space.
You get it by typing Alt+032 on your keyboard.
I did the following with a text editor. No idea how using Subtitle Edit.


video.srt

1
00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:8,640
This is a single line of text.
\n \n

2
00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:16,760
This is a wrapped line of text. Well, it will be when I've typed in enough words. Are we there yet?
\n \n

3
00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,240
I've started yet another line. Who's an eccentric?
\n \n

4
00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,640
Now the text should have dropped back to the original position..

 5
00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,640
I hope this helps you.

Try my subs with a video you have.
Cheers.

[pcspeak]

I found you can also do it like this.

1
00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:8,640
This is a single line of text.\n \n

2
00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:16,760
This is a wrapped line of text. Well, it will be when I've typed in enough words. Are we there yet?\n \n

3
00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,240
I've started yet another line. Who's an eccentric?\n \n

4
00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,640
Now the text should have dropped back to the original position..

5
00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:33,640
I hope this helps you.

This might be a simple thing with Subtitle Edit.

[Nico Darko]

Yes, it seems to be working, thank you!
Now if anyone knows how to add that underneath every single line, using Subtitle Edit or another program, that'd be great

Edit: The first way works, the second one doesn't seem to.

[jack_666]

Now if anyone knows how to add that underneath every single line, using Subtitle Edit or another program, that'd be great

awk "!/^[A-Z]/{print } /^[A-Z]/{ print $0\"\n\134n\134n\" }" video.srt

where video.srt is the subtitle file

[jack_666]

Another way

awk "/^[A-Z]/{print;print \"\134n\134n\";next}1" video.srt

[Nico Darko]

Thanks, but it's not working properly. A lot of the lines turn like this:

It'll give me focus, help
\n \n
increase my resources.

instead of the \n \n being underneath the second line only.

Some lines are like this:

How's my favourite chess partner?
\n \n
Still leading with your knight?
\n \n

Some don't have \n \n at all. The few ones where it works only have one line:

Plans? We planned plans?
\n \n

[jagabo]

Most srt renders will "display" this as a blank line (html itallics tags with a space between them):

<i> </i>

[jack_666]

this will work provided the sub title text starts with the letters A to Z or a to z.

awk "/^[A-Z,a-z]/ { c = 2 } --c == 0 { print \"\134n\134n\" } {print $0}"  video.srt

If you wish to use <i> </i> , as recommended by jagabo, then use

awk "/^[A-Z,a-z]/ { c = 2 } --c == 0 { print \"\074i\076 \074/i\076\" } {print $0}"  video.srt

[Nico Darko]

Great, thank you, it's working. But is there a way to change the code for when the line starts with the symbol " and - ?

Also I've been able to see the result by adding "pause" at the end, but I don't see how to save the new srt file?

[jack_666]

This should do the trick.

Code modifies text that start with uppercase, lowercase, comma, quotation and minus. Modified file is saved to video_modified.srt

awk "/^[\042A-Z,a-z-]/ { c = 2 } --c == 0 { print \"\074i\076 \074/i\076\" } {print $0}"  video.srt  > video_modified.srt

[blud7]

Some players allow you to adjust the position of subtitles on the screen...

[Nico Darko]

This should do the trick.

Code modifies text that start with uppercase, lowercase, comma, quotation and minus. Modified file is saved to video_modified.srt

awk "/^[\042A-Z,a-z-]/ { c = 2 } --c == 0 { print \"\074i\076 \074/i\076\" } {print $0}"  video.srt  > video_modified.srt

Works perfectly, thanks so much!
Final question, how can I turn the code to batch mode? because I need to apply this to at least 30 srt files.

Some players allow you to adjust the position of subtitles on the screen...

Yeah, no such option on my Samsung player unfortunately.

[jack_666]

using a loop ... need to copy this code and save as whatever.cmd and place in appropriate folder (where all your .srt files are stored).


Run the script from the same folder (very important). The resultant modified file will have the same name as original but with the word 'new' added

for %%f in (*.srt) do ( awk "/^[\042A-Z,a-z-]/ { x++; c = 2 } --c == 0 { print \"\074i\076 \074/i\076\" } {print $0}" %%f  > %%~nf_new.srt )

[Nico Darko]

Perfect, thanks again!

[Nico Darko]

I've just realized that awk doesn't work if the name of the subtitle file has any space in it. Is there a way around that? because I have a bunch of files that have spaces in their name.

[jagabo]

Nothing to do with awk. It's a standard command line issue -- space is a demarker between arguments. Put double quotes around the filenames.

... "%%f"  > "%%~nf_new.srt"

[Nico Darko]

Great thank you, that'll save me a lot of time!