Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: examine a hex dump of an ODT content.xml file. I see what you mean about "no codes": A paragraph is just a text string between XML bounds and , and a line break (inside

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
Brian, On 2020-07-21 22:21, Brian Barker wrote: At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: examine a hex dump of an ODT content.xml file. I see what you mean about "no codes": A paragraph is just a text string

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Brian, On 2020-07-21 14:09, Brian Barker wrote: At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: ... AutoCorrect had the effect of changing most non-empty "Default Style" paragraphs to "Text Body" style, with the rest chosen [by spacing hints?] to be "Hanging Indent", "Heading", "Heading

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: ... No criticism intended, of course. First combine single-line paragraphs: [...] AutoCorrect had the effect of changing most non-empty "Default Style" paragraphs to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2020-07-21 09:09, Michael H wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 12:18 AM John Kaufmann wrote: ... You sent me to do something I should have done before asking the question: examine a hex dump of an ODT content.xml file. I see what you mean about "no codes": A paragraph is just a text string

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2020-07-21 08:57, Philip Jackson wrote: On 21/07/2020 07:16, John Kaufmann wrote: Now I understand the point of AutoCorrect Option "Combine single line paragraphs if length greater than 50%". But how do you "adjust the minimum length of such paragraphs in AutoCorrect Options - possibly to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread Michael H
Much simpler than using a hex editor: 1. rename the .odt to .zip and use a zip archive manager. you want to look in content.xml 2. save the file as an .fodt (its the same file in open text.) view that with a plain text editor. This works great unless you have a lot of images in it. textified

Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

2020-07-21 Thread Philip Jackson
On 21/07/2020 07:16, John Kaufmann wrote: Now I understand the point of AutoCorrect Option "Combine single line paragraphs if length greater than 50%". But how do you "adjust the minimum length of such paragraphs in AutoCorrect Options - possibly to 0%"? (The fact that I don't find the

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] 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