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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Sat Jan 2 16:35:11 +0000 2010 ------- I presume lawyers want to create documents that look like a single paragraph when printed and are not bothered about OOo's internal representation of the paragraph. For performance reasons it is better to keep paragraphs small, certainly much smaller than 60,000 characters. What about the following solution: Provide an additional paragraph style feature "merge with next paragraph". If a paragraph has this style, OOo is allowed to move the paragraph mark when repaginating / refreshing the document so that it always seems to merge into the next paragraph. When documents with large paragraphs are opened, they are automatically split into smaller paragraphs with this paragraph style feature. When saving in Microsoft Word format, the paragraphs can be merged back into a huge paragraph. Alternatively, without a new format: 1. On detecting a very long paragraph approaching the limit, Writer will automatically insert a paragraph break and warn the user that it has done so. 2. To provide an extension or plugin for 'virtual paragraphs'. This program scans through the text in the current section (or selection) and moves all paragraph marks to the end of the nearest line, to give the illusion (when printed) that the document consists of one paragraph. It will check that there is zero extra linefeed before or after the moved paragraph marks. The program will not alter double paragraph marks, or marks between paragraphs with different text styles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
