At 22:54 01/01/2015 -0800, Allen Schaaf wrote:
Is there any way to display just the tab and paragraph marker
without also displaying the space marker?
Not that I know of.
Also, is there any way to keep true paragraph markers and yet delete
end of line markers?
There is no such thing as an "end of line marker", of course: text
generally flows naturally between lines as appropriate. If instead
you mean line breaks (as entered with Shift+Enter), then these can
easily be deleted by searching for \n and replacing with nothing with
"Regular expressions" ticked.
This is a problem I often have and have never found a way to do it.
In W$%^ it is easy. I use ^p^p as the search term and # as the
replacement. Then I delete all ^p markers. Then I find # and replace with ^p^p.
This suggests that instead of "end of line markers" and "true
paragraph markers" you are describing text which has every line
terminated by a paragraph break - in other words that each line is a
separate paragraph - and that what you are actually considering to be
paragraphs are separated by double paragraph breaks - in other words
by an empty paragraph. Is that so?
I get a lot of documents that are double spaced and either triple
spaced or double double spaced to indicate paragraph breaks.
Multiple spacing is not a problem: that can easily be adjusted.
Often scanned documents will have a paragraph marker at the end of
every line that needs deleted for proper text flow when a page width
is different than the original or I'm making a PDF for instant
printing or a book layout.
This is not multiple spacing, of course - but inappropriate paragraph
structure. But you are quite right that it is a frequent problem with
material brought in from elsewhere - perhaps from a web document.
Currently I have to open the file in W$%^, do the paragraph thing
and then finish my work in OO. Because I have to do this (looong
documents) I still have to use Windoze and I'd like to move all this
work to my FreeBSD machine.
Try this:
o Go to Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply. This should merge single-line
paragraphs into the real paragraphs you need.
o Search for ^$ and Replace with nothing. This will remove empty paragraphs.
o Apply proper paragraph formatting (or, better still, paragraph
style formatting) to create spacing before or after paragraphs.
Notes:
o You can adjust how the first technique operates at Tools |
AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Combine single line paragraphs if
length greater than 50%. Select the option and click Edit... to
adjust the percentage. Experiment (probably with smaller values)
until you get the effect you need.
o The AutoCorrect facility can apply other changes that you may not
want. You can avoid this by adjusting the AutoCorrect facility (as
above), or using Apply and Edit Changes instead and then choosing the
changes to accept. But the simplest way is probably to carry out this
procedure on your text first, before you do any other formatting, and
then to use Format | Default Formatting (or Ctrl+M) to undo anything
you don't want.
o In extreme cases (your "double double spacing"), you may need to
alternate the suggestions above.
o Your description above suggests that you still use empty paragraphs
in your final version to space your material vertically. It is much
better to use proper paragraph spacing.
Incidentally, this is how I advised you last April; I think the
advice still holds!
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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