Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
At 11:25 21/10/2012 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: Yes, you got it. My goal is to open (not paste in) saved plain text files in a blank, newly opened Libre Write document. I've visited Preformatted Style and change the style to Bookman Old 12 point, clicked Apply and then saved it (or so I thought) only for it to always default back to Courier New 10 point when I open any plain text file. I've created a Default font with Bookman Old 12 point but Libre Write automatically opens all *saved* plain text files to Preformatted Style not Default. I just wondered if there was any way to change which style Libre Writer will open *saved* plain text files automatically to since Libre Writer does not seems to save changes to the Preformatted Style? Writer will save changes to paragraph styles, but only in the current document. If you save your document in Writer's native .odt format and reopen it, you will see that any modifications to styles have been preserved. The point that you are perhaps missing is that saving as plain text is very much an export option, not a way of saving a word processor document. (Think of it like creating a PDF version of your document - which function Writer helpfully includes as Export in the File menu, not as a Save As... option.) As already mentioned by others, style changes cannot be saved in a plain text file - which is just that: the plain and unvarnished text. So when you reopen such a file, you are creating a fresh document as far as Writer is concerned and any changes you made to its now-discarded alter ego are irrelevant. If you need to save a document and later to re-edit it, plain text is useless. As always, the best way to proceed is to save your documents in Writer's native format. If there is any need for a plain text version of your document, first save your most recent changes to the .odt file (for future use) and then save the plain text version separately. The key seems to be inducing Libre Writer to open Text Encoded and/or Plain Text files to either Default (where I have it set to Bookman Old 12 point) or another style which does not require Courier New 10 point. I don't see any way to do this. If you follow the scheme above, you will need to apply the style or font you prefer only once for each such document - which is hardly a penance. After that, the .odt version you are working with will preserve its appearance faithfully. Has anyone on the list successful changed the style Text Encoded or Plain Text files open to? I wish you luck. But - as I say - the expected method of modifying the Preformatted Text paragraph style in a new template and then setting that as the default template does not work. When opening plain text files into new documents, Writer uses the default default template (Text Document), not your newly defined default template, and relies on the unmodified style in that template. This is unexpected (by me, at least) but true! Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
On 2012-10-21 11:25, charles meyer wrote: Hi Brian, Yes, you got it. My goal is to open (not paste in) saved plain text files in a blank, newly opened Libre Write document. I've visited Preformatted Style and change the style to Bookman Old 12 point, clicked Apply and then saved it (or so I thought) only for it to always default back to Courier New 10 point when I open any plain text file. I've created a Default font with Bookman Old 12 point but Libre Write automatically opens all *saved* plain text files to Preformatted Style not Default. I just wondered if there was any way to change which style Libre Writer will open *saved* plain text files automatically to since Libre Writer does not seems to save changes to the Prefromatted Style? Oddly enough if you click FormatStyles the drop down list of autonomic styles Preoformated is *not* listed. You must list all styles to find it. Following webmaster-Kracked's inspiration, I saved a document as Text Encoded but whne I re-opened the file it still opens all documents saved as Text Encoded and/or Plain Text in the Performatted Style. The key seems to be induing Libre Writer to open Text Encoded and/or Plain Text files to either Default (where I have it set to Bookman Old 12 point) or another style which does not require Courier New 10 point. Has anyone on the list successful changed the style Text Encoded or Plain Text files open to? Thanks so much, Charles. Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font From:Brian Barkerb.m.bar...@btinternet.com Date:Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:21:49 +0100 To:users@global.libreoffice.org snip There are two issues here, I think. In order to change the Preformatted Text paragraph style you have to have a document open - and the change is made to the style in that document, not in your installation of LibreOffice. So your change is ignored when you open the new document from your plain text file. The way around that might seem to be to create a template containing your modified Preformatted Text paragraph style and then to set that as the default template. You can certainly do that. Now you would probably expect in this case that when you open your plain text file the new text (Writer) document would be created from your new modified default template, but - perhaps perversely - it appears to be opened using the original default default template, ignoring your desired change. I trust this helps (though I doubt it does). Brian Barker Charles/Brian: I found one way to view a plain text file in something other than the default Courier New 10 pt' when it is opened. If you go into Tools|Options|Fonts, you can use font substitution to change the Courier New 10 pt font to a different font. FYI: This will impact any other documents that use the Courier New font that may not be plain text files. Maybe this helps, TomW -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
Hi :) I think you don't even have to select all your text. Just have the cursor somewhere in the text and click on the box besides the fonts box on the toolbar and reselect default (or whatever) i think that should be enough to reassert your fonts and sizes rather than copying the ones used in your text-editor. My text editor doesn't use Courier so i get Arial or something when i try to copypaste from it. Regards from Tom :) From: charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
On 10/19/2012 10:44 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. I do not remember that you can save a font style and such in a plain text file. How did you set up the Styles and Formatting to open plain text files to Bookman Old? I do not remember how this is done or if it can be done for the default font used on opening a specific mime-type file for .txt or such. my 3.5.7 - 64-bit DEBs install gives me: save as text - DejaVu Sans Mono save as text encoded - Times New Roman - which was the font that it was in when I saved the document. So Text Encoded should keep the text font/style you used for the document and save it as a .txt mime type or file extension type. . -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
Hi Tom, Have you figured out if Libre Writer can open plain text files automatically to your chosen font? When I place the cursor anywhere in the body of the text of a plain text file and then choose Default in the style window it only changes that line of text to my chosen Default style, not the whole file of text. What version of Libre are you using? Thank you, Charles. On 10/19/12, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I think you don't even have to select all your text. Just have the cursor somewhere in the text and click on the box besides the fonts box on the toolbar and reselect default (or whatever) i think that should be enough to reassert your fonts and sizes rather than copying the ones used in your text-editor. My text editor doesn't use Courier so i get Arial or something when i try to copypaste from it. Regards from Tom :) From: charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
On 10/19/2012 10:44 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. AFAIK *.txt do not store any complex formating information beyond what is found in the character set (UTF-8 typically). Thus tabs, carriage returns, line feeds are encoded; they are part of the character set. Bold, italic, font, size are not part of the character set; thus are not encoded. When you open a txt file, it appears to open using the mono space font set as your system default (mine is Droid Sans Mono, 10 point). Typically, text editors use mono space fonts so that each character/space has the same width which makes eyeballing the layout for source code easier when indenting. *txt files are also called plain text files because that is what they are just plain text. After formating the text, I would save as the file as *.odt (and *.doc if sharing) formats to preserve the desired formating. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
On 10/19/2012 11:43 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 10/19/2012 10:44 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. AFAIK *.txt do not store any complex formating information beyond what is found in the character set (UTF-8 typically). Thus tabs, carriage returns, line feeds are encoded; they are part of the character set. Bold, italic, font, size are not part of the character set; thus are not encoded. When you open a txt file, it appears to open using the mono space font set as your system default (mine is Droid Sans Mono, 10 point). Typically, text editors use mono space fonts so that each character/space has the same width which makes eyeballing the layout for source code easier when indenting. *txt files are also called plain text files because that is what they are just plain text. After formating the text, I would save as the file as *.odt (and *.doc if sharing) formats to preserve the desired formating. As I said in my post, USE Text Encoded and your .txt file will save the font and the style of font in the file. Plain TEXT does not., Encoded Text [Text Encoded] does. Text - opened with the fixed width - i.e. MONO - font, but saving as Text Encoded kept the Times New Roman font formatting from the original document when I opened it. The issue for me is that both formats use the same mime/file-extension type of .txt. TEXT ENCODED is the answer. Save it in that file format and it solves the problem. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
If you have plain text, use Control+A to highlight the entire text. Then clicking the Default Paragraph style will change to your desired font. The key to what is happening is the type of style being applied: paragraph. If you place the cursor in a single line paragraph, clicking Default will only change one line. If a paragraph has several lines, doing this will change several lines. Stop and think about your question. If Writer were to do what you wanted, it would do this for all text files. That means you might later create a text document with several custom styles in it. Opening this document in Writer would remove all these styles. This is not a good idea. However, there is a better way to do this using copy and paste special. Open the text in a simple text editor (Notepad, Gedit, etc.) Open Writer with an Untitled document. Click your Default style so that it is applied to the first paragraph (empty paragraph in this case. Copy the text. Paste special (Control+Shift+V). Select Unformatted text. All the text will be pasted with your default font. --Dan On 10/19/2012 11:37 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, Have you figured out if Libre Writer can open plain text files automatically to your chosen font? When I place the cursor anywhere in the body of the text of a plain text file and then choose Default in the style window it only changes that line of text to my chosen Default style, not the whole file of text. What version of Libre are you using? Thank you, Charles. On 10/19/12, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I think you don't even have to select all your text. Just have the cursor somewhere in the text and click on the box besides the fonts box on the toolbar and reselect default (or whatever) i think that should be enough to reassert your fonts and sizes rather than copying the ones used in your text-editor. My text editor doesn't use Courier so i get Arial or something when i try to copypaste from it. Regards from Tom :) From: charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
Hi :) Ahhh, thanks Dan. That makes more sense. Sorry Charles, ignore me. Regards from Tom :) From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 17:08 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font If you have plain text, use Control+A to highlight the entire text. Then clicking the Default Paragraph style will change to your desired font. The key to what is happening is the type of style being applied: paragraph. If you place the cursor in a single line paragraph, clicking Default will only change one line. If a paragraph has several lines, doing this will change several lines. Stop and think about your question. If Writer were to do what you wanted, it would do this for all text files. That means you might later create a text document with several custom styles in it. Opening this document in Writer would remove all these styles. This is not a good idea. However, there is a better way to do this using copy and paste special. Open the text in a simple text editor (Notepad, Gedit, etc.) Open Writer with an Untitled document. Click your Default style so that it is applied to the first paragraph (empty paragraph in this case. Copy the text. Paste special (Control+Shift+V). Select Unformatted text. All the text will be pasted with your default font. --Dan On 10/19/2012 11:37 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, Have you figured out if Libre Writer can open plain text files automatically to your chosen font? When I place the cursor anywhere in the body of the text of a plain text file and then choose Default in the style window it only changes that line of text to my chosen Default style, not the whole file of text. What version of Libre are you using? Thank you, Charles. On 10/19/12, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I think you don't even have to select all your text. Just have the cursor somewhere in the text and click on the box besides the fonts box on the toolbar and reselect default (or whatever) i think that should be enough to reassert your fonts and sizes rather than copying the ones used in your text-editor. My text editor doesn't use Courier so i get Arial or something when i try to copypaste from it. Regards from Tom :) From: charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
El 19/10/12 18:27, Tom Davies escribió: Hi :) Ahhh, thanks Dan. That makes more sense. Sorry Charles, ignore me. Regards from Tom :) From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 17:08 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font If you have plain text, use Control+A to highlight the entire text. Then clicking the Default Paragraph style will change to your desired font. The key to what is happening is the type of style being applied: paragraph. If you place the cursor in a single line paragraph, clicking Default will only change one line. If a paragraph has several lines, doing this will change several lines. Stop and think about your question. If Writer were to do what you wanted, it would do this for all text files. That means you might later create a text document with several custom styles in it. Opening this document in Writer would remove all these styles. This is not a good idea. However, there is a better way to do this using copy and paste special. Open the text in a simple text editor (Notepad, Gedit, etc.) Open Writer with an Untitled document. Click your Default style so that it is applied to the first paragraph (empty paragraph in this case. Copy the text. Paste special (Control+Shift+V). Select Unformatted text. All the text will be pasted with your default font. --Dan On 10/19/2012 11:37 AM, charles meyer wrote: Hi Tom, Have you figured out if Libre Writer can open plain text files automatically to your chosen font? When I place the cursor anywhere in the body of the text of a plain text file and then choose Default in the style window it only changes that line of text to my chosen Default style, not the whole file of text. What version of Libre are you using? Thank you, Charles. On 10/19/12, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I think you don't even have to select all your text. Just have the cursor somewhere in the text and click on the box besides the fonts box on the toolbar and reselect default (or whatever) i think that should be enough to reassert your fonts and sizes rather than copying the ones used in your text-editor. My text editor doesn't use Courier so i get Arial or something when i try to copypaste from it. Regards from Tom :) From: charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/r Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted Menu/Insert/File set the style in use where the file text is inserted. So creating a new writer file and inserting the file, must assign the default format. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
If you're saying you wish to use a different font for your default font, then just go to 'properties' -- scroll through the folder-files to change the set defaults to those you desire -- save your changes. There's a setting for documents you make as well as documents you receive; font colour may also be chosen. On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM, charles meyer reachmepl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Folks, I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Pre-formatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Pre-formatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then re-opened Pre-formatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Pre-formatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and choosethe Default style and it will change back to my desired font and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will open to a desired font stye? Thank you so much, Charles. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
At 10:44 19/10/2012 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? I don't think that there is a way to do this. The answers so far have been workarounds. (It's not clear whether their authors were aware of that.) You are not talking about inserting a file into an existing document or pasting text into an existing document but about opening a plain text file in LibreOffice (Writer) - either through File | Open... or using Open With (or similar) in your operating system. You would then, after editing, presumably save this as a (formatted) .odt document. There are two issues here, I think. In order to change the Preformatted Text paragraph style you have to have a document open - and the change is made to the style in that document, not in your installation of LibreOffice. So your change is ignored when you open the new document from your plain text file. The way around that might seem to be to create a template containing your modified Preformatted Text paragraph style and then to set that as the default template. You can certainly do that. Now you would probably expect in this case that when you open your plain text file the new text (Writer) document would be created from your new modified default template, but - perhaps perversely - it appears to be opened using the original default default template, ignoring your desired change. I trust this helps (though I doubt it does). Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
At 12:08 19/10/2012 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: From: Charles Meyer Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? Stop and think about your question. If Writer were to do what you wanted, it would do this for all text files. That means you might later create a text document with several custom styles in it. Opening this document in Writer would remove all these styles. This is not a good idea. I think you've missed the point here. The questioner is asking about opening *plain* text files. Yes: he wants to control the automatic paragraph style which Writer chooses for all plain text files opened in this way. The text files containing custom styles that you are describing are formatted text (Writer) files - probably in .odt format. (No doubt he will save his new documents in that format after he has edited them.) Opening such .odt documents does not impose Preformatted Text paragraph style on anything, of course. Brian Barker -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font
On 10/19/2012 11:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:08 19/10/2012 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote: From: Charles Meyer Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44 I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default font style and size so a blank document will open to that default style and size. I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size. Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point. I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point and clicked Apply, then OK. I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my chosen font and size. However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old 12 point I chose and saved. Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point whenever you open a plain text file? Stop and think about your question. If Writer were to do what you wanted, it would do this for all text files. That means you might later create a text document with several custom styles in it. Opening this document in Writer would remove all these styles. This is not a good idea. I think you've missed the point here. The questioner is asking about opening *plain* text files. Yes: he wants to control the automatic paragraph style which Writer chooses for all plain text files opened in this way. The text files containing custom styles that you are describing are formatted text (Writer) files - probably in .odt format. (No doubt he will save his new documents in that format after he has edited them.) Opening such .odt documents does not impose Preformatted Text paragraph style on anything, of course. Brian Barker Perhaps I did miss the point. So, here is another thought. Open the desired template which creates an untitled document with its styles. Then Insert File. Browse to the text document. Click Open. In my case, the plain text was formatted with the desired format. There must be a difference of how LO handles a text file when it opens it vs when it inserts it. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
