On 24/03/2012, e-letter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 23/03/2012, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: >> Interesting problem: An email text is received which you need to format >> for publication. >> The email uses a carriage return at the end of each line, and a double >> carriage return >> for paragraph spacing. What I'd like to do is remove the cr's at the >> end of each line, so >> the text can be justified, and turn the double cr's into paragraph >> controls, or just leave >> as double cr's. Obviously all this can be done a line at a time by >> hand, but it's a pain. >> Is there any way someone can suggest to automate this? >> > > This is quickly performed by using regular expressions, either in LO > or more easily in any decent text editor. > > On a separate issue, what is the syntax in LO to select paragraph > breaks (pilcrow (ΒΆ) sign) in the 'find and replace' dialogue window? > Subsequent posts indicate why it is much easier to solve this question by use of a text editor instead of LO.
For example, it seems that double carriage return is equivalent to an empty line. As for the line feed a simple remove may be achieved in jedit: find \n replace with [empty field] would remove new lines and replace with a space ( ) character. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
