On Tue December 20 2005 13:36, + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > In the "Find and Replace" function, there is no way to replace paragraph > breaks. I know you can do the remove paragraph marks from one-line > paragraphs in the Autocorrect feature, but that is not what I mean. > > Often, I find myself working with documents that have extra line spacing > below the paragraph in place of Twp paragraph marks. This is not suitable > for posting to many web sites or bulletin boards, wheer double line feeds > are required. > > In Word, WordPerfect, Appleworks, etc. it is possible to replace single > paragraph marks with double ones in the "Find and Replace" feature. For > OpenOffice to be "ready for prime time" basic features such as this need to > be available. In fact, one should be able to do this with all formatting > characters. For example, manual like breaks often have to be either > deleted en mass or replaced with paragraph marks. Neither of these is > possible in OpenOffice. > > As a professional writer and editor, I need these features and cannot work > effectively without them.
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Wed December 21 2005 20:32, Ian Laurenson wrote: > To make life easier for people migrating to OpenOffice.org and to get > around some of the limitations in the find and replace I have written a > macro called IanndFindReplace available from: > http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/ > The instructions for installing in OOo2.0 need updating but if you look > at the instructions for installing libraries for the KeyHandler, you > should be able to work it out. > > However, I think that it is time that my macro is retired and that > similar features be part of standard OOo. Namely: > > * Ability to select regular expressions so that they don't have to be > remembered or looked up in help; > > * Work across paragraphs and not just within paragraphs; > > * Fix the anomaly of \n being line breaks in Find but paragraph breaks > in Replace; > > * Ability to search for and replace character and paragraph styles at > the same same time as an expression for text; > > * Define the styles for the replaced text. E.g. If replacing a paragraph > break be able to say which paragraph style the resulting merged > paragraph will have - the first paragraph or the second. > > My macro can't do the following but these features should be included: > > * Extend the concept to any formatting e.g. be able to find H2O where > the 2 is subscripted as opposed to all H2O or conversely to find H2O and > to apply the subscript in the replace; > > * Include groups in replace. (A group is a bracketed expression in a > regular expression and this would allow you to find some text but only > change a part of it within the found context). > > * Change the API so that Find can work on a text range. > > I hope that this message will generate some discussion around the issue, > so that a clearer picture of what people want for Find & Replace and how > it could work. Maybe my macro could be a starting point for discussing > some alternatives. > > Then maybe I (if I can find the time) or someone else can implement a > well thought out and discussed improvement. Please reply to [email protected] only. -- Please reply to [email protected] only. Normally [email protected] is the best list to ask questions about using OpenOffice.org -- CPH : OpenOffice.org contributor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
