title: Delete odd numbered lines in text, skip blank lines
body: <p>I have text of a poem that starts with the original language on odd numbered lines and a translation on even numbered lines.  I want to remove the original language odd lines.  I could use the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17735289/delete-every-other-line-in-notepad">Notepad++ replace function with regex</a> <code>([^\n]*\n)[^\n]*\n</code> to remove every odd numbered line but when it reaches the blank lines between paragraphs, it switches to removing the translated lines and some of the blank lines also get removed.</p>
  <p>How would I remove the odd lines while skipping and keeping the blank lines (it doesn't have to be done in Notepad++)?</p>