[libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-20 Thread John Kaufmann
Documents archived in Project Gutenberg are typically simple text, with each line ending in (Hex:0D0A), so that paragraphs are separated by an empty line . I thought it would be simple to convert one such (5657.txt) to format in Writer, but stumbled on elementary problems in Find-&-Replace

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-20 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:38 20/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: Documents archived in Project Gutenberg are typically simple text, with each line ending in (Hex:0D0A), so that paragraphs are separated by an empty line . I thought it would be simple to convert one such (5657.txt) to format in Writer, ... It

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-20 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Brian, Thanks for introducing a fundamental concept that my brain had not yet grasped. As for the details: On 2020-07-20 18:49, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:38 20/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: Documents archived in Project Gutenberg are typically simple text, with each line ending in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux users might find themselves paying money to use LibreOffice one day

2020-07-20 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 7/8/20 1:46 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den ons 8 juli 2020 kl 19:08 skrev John Kaufmann : On 2020-07-08 10:41, James Knott wrote: I came across this article: https://betanews.com/2020/07/06/libreoffice-money/ Umm... when you begin this way: "... LibreOffice ... is actually quite

Re: [libreoffice-users] Linux users might find themselves paying money to use LibreOffice one day

2020-07-20 Thread Luuk
On 20-7-2020 04:58, Mark LaPierre wrote: You should see what Excel does to anything that looks like it could be a date.  We have a field that contains text like, "01-21-34", that Excel turns into Jan 21 2034 or some other silly thing like that.  There's no way to stop that from happening