Invective aside, I have to agree with Elchanan. It can be extraordinarily
effective at times when editing to seach for and replace instances of an end
of paragraph marker (typically, a carraige return/line feed pair) with or
without surrounding characters. While one responder indicated that there was
no such thing, I beg to differ. Surely Writer uses some internal
representation of "paragraph end". Not every word processor allows these
seaches in spite of their usefulness. Like Elchanan, I never found a way to
do it either in Writer in spite of spending quite a bit of time once trying
to find out how. To this day I still find myslef going back to good old
DOS-based XyWrite to do some of these things.
Your average user, I'd bet, hasn't a clue to what a "regex" is and,
furthermore, doesn't care. All they want to do in this case is have a way of
representing an "end of paragraph" (or line break, for that matter) in a
Writer search.
Jerry
"jonathon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 08:32, Elchanan wrote:
I must say, this is rather disappointing. I have not the slightest
intention of asking ordinary authors to use regex expressions. The
product needs to meet the authors, not the reverse.
If the authors haven't learned how to use regex searches, then they
haven't learned how to use the software programs that they have.
And one ought to be able to search for any element type the product
supports ... conditional text, any marker type, any charstyle or
parastyle or page style, etc.
This is true. I'll just point out that there are simple workarounds
for searches of most, if not all element types that OOo utilizes.
jonathon
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