Hi, Paul --
Paul wrote:
For me this is more of a question on what application are you using to
read your 'text' documents and does it support wrapping.
Exactly -- a browser doesn't support wrapping of plain text. :-)
If you create a single paragraph in OOo, then save as plain text there
is probably no carriage returns (unless you put one at the end of the
paragraph). When you open this in a text reader, the reader then
determines whether to wrap the single line or not (which will be based
largely on its own functionality).
Correct again -- the paragraphs break fine, because there is a return
at the end of each one (I'm thinking I didn't make that clear in my
original post, now that you mention it. <g>)
If I open the files in OOo, or any text reader, yes, the lines wrap
because of the functionality of the text reader.
For instance, in notepad, there is the option to either have word wrap
turned on, or not. This then drives whether the text appears within
the window that I've defined, or as a single line.
Yup. :-)
Let me know if I've missed something by replying to the list.
Nope -- you haven't missed anything. You've nailed it perfectly.
The problem is these plain text files are created specifically for web
use, and for relatively unsavy computer users at that. So if I upload
them without "tweaking" them, the lines scroll off the "page", and
they think there's something wrong. They don't realize they can still
copy/download the file and open it in *their* text reader, and all
will be well.
I'm thinking I will just have to create these as plain text files
initially, manually inserting the carriage returns at the end of each
line, and then using the plain text file to create the OOo format
document and sometimes PDF's as well.
I can use a regular expression to remove the carriage returns and thus
the text wraps fine after that's done -- I guess my question
*really* was if there is a way to do that procedure in reverse -- a
regex that will insert the carriage returns in a document that is
already wrapping. Most of the stuff I'm working on right now is
relatively short, but I have some very lengthy docs that have already
been created that will literally take hours to insert those carriage
returns by hand.
It's just a major PITA since I haven't used a typewriter since the
early 80's -- remembering to put those little suckers in is hard on
the old grey cells. :-)
Thanks!
Tam
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