[libreoffice-users] Re: how to reformat this?

2019-04-12 Thread V Stuart Foote
If you toggle the Formatting Marks on, with +F10, you will see that each line is actually a paragraph. You need to collapse the multiple lines into single lines with the Find & Replace dialog. But before that you'll want to mark the actual paragraph endings with a unique text sequence. You'll

Re: [libreoffice-users] how to reformat this?

2019-04-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:44 12/04/2019 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote: here's a snippet of text where the lines are too short - [...] I'd like to reformat this to look more like this - [...] Can anyone suggest how to use LO Writer to automate amalgamating short lines into longer lines? o Go to Tools | AutoCorrect |

[libreoffice-users] how to reformat this?

2019-04-12 Thread Dave Stevens
here's a snippet of text where the lines are too short - She also showed herself to be adept at office politics-at flattering her superiors without appearing to do so; at wrong- footing those who stood in her path to advancement, again, without ever betraying her intent. I'd like to reformat

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tabs in selection of text

2019-04-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi. If you are copying and pasting the text into your document, then "paste without formatting" will paste the text in and adopt the style/formatting at the cursor. I have assigned ctl-k on my machines to paste unformatted. I can quickly ctl-ins , ctl-k to copy-paste 1 handed and not muck up my

[libreoffice-users] FODT Write Error. The file could not be written.

2019-04-12 Thread Francesco Ongaro
Dear LibreOffice Community, I programmatically generate a FODT that opens without any problem and can be edited. When saving such FODT document I get "Write Error. The file could not be written.". BTW the document is valid XML, is there a method to debug such issue? I tried

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tabs in selection of text

2019-04-12 Thread Carl Paulsen
Steve, I think you may have hit the nail on the head.  I'll look into upgrading and see if that changes anything.  I think the issue may well have been that I was selecting "paragraphs" with different formatting (my quotes aren't to draw attention but rather to indicate I don't mean only

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tabs in selection of text

2019-04-12 Thread Carl Paulsen
Thanks Dan, I guess what is unintuitive is the CSS-like approach to Styles. I find CSS to be very difficult when, as you say, you have a complex page and need to nest various styles and keep track of hierarchies.  When using LO for text docs, I'm simply wanting to produce a text document with