Brian,
In a message dated 2009.09.19 05:27 -0500, Brian Barker wrote:
Does OO Writer deprecate the traditional practice ...
Traditional? Does that mean "as beloved of typewriter users"? ;^)
Maybe ;-) Or "traditional" in the sense of people who came to word
processors from vi/roff. [Yes, I date myself. ;-)]
... of inserting a return (newline = "carriage return" = "hard return"
= "line break") between paragraphs?
This conversation is going to become difficult if we confuse different
ideas. In word processors, a hard return, created by pressing Enter
(and the closest thing to the typewriter user's carriage return) is a
*paragraph* break (or new paragraph), not a new line. Writer also has
Shift+Enter, which creates a line break within a paragraph (also called
a soft return). So all those things are not equal.
Great! - in that paragraph you have probably encapsulated everything I
need on this topic. One of my problems was thinking in terms of ASCII
0D (CR) and 0A (LF) and how they were used in early word processors.
You just kicked my thinking out of the bit-bucket (and into the modern
era I hope, where one should neither know nor care how the bits are coded).
Does OO have such utility, or is the return between paragraphs simply
deprecated?
I cannot speak for OpenOffice, but I deprecate it!
And now so will I. I was coming to that conclusion; your explanation
crystallized it.
Thanks,
John
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