--- Philippe DEFERT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When you open a text file in abiword, it always > takes it line by line, > i.e. it adds an end of line at each LF. When you > write a text in emacs > there is an automatic wrapping to 72 columns and > this inserts a LF. I > saw in lyx a very nice feature when you import a > text file, you can > choose to get it line by line i.e each LF is an EOL > or you can do the > same paragraph by paragraph i.e. each 2 lines > separated by 1 LF are > joined, as soon that you have a blank line which is > equivalent to 2 > consecutive LF, a EOL is added to make a > "paragraph". This is called in > the lyx jargon "import text as lines" or "import > text as paragraphs" > > Is there the same feature in abiword ? If so, where > can I find it, if it > does not exist I think it could be simple to > implement though very very > useful in UNIX. I am not enough into abiword's code > to do it myself... > > Amicalement. > Philippe.
Hi Philippe. I did a lot of the work on the text import/export and have thought about this a lot even this week. If we import in this way we probably also need to output this way. Most "plain text" files that I see seem to have "hard" line breaks whereas WP docs seem to rely on word wrapping. Adding hard line breaks on export would certainly need a dialog or a prefs setting on which column to put the breaks. Since we also have already a "human-readable" plain text exporter I often wonder if this is the place for such code and its counterpart, "human-readable" importer would need to be created. This makes me wonder if a better name for such importer/exporters would be needed. Another to keep in mind is that WPs have both the concept of a paragraph and a line break. Think <p>, </p>, and <br/> in HTML. Unicode also has characters for both and MacOSX seems to reccommend using them. In MSWord a paragraph is created with the return key and a link break is created with shift-enter. I'm not sure that Abi already supports both but it probably does. We probably need to think about all these and see what OSX actually does in the real world. A feature request at http://bugzilla.abisource.com is a good place to put ideas. Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
