On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:43:59PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >... I rough- draft everything in vi because my fingers know it; but
> >it takes some prep'n to translate a vi file for OO.
> >
> >It would really help to be able to replace a tab-indented paragraph
> >with a standard 5-space-indent paragraph. Or tabs with spaces.
>
> I don't understand. What do you have (from vi) and what do you want in OOo?
>
> I don't know what you mean by a "standard 5-space-indent paragraph". Is
> that a publishing term?
>
> Why not use vi to prepare the text for seamless import to Writer, rather
> than using Writer to fix the imported text?
I do use vi for my rough drafts. Sometimes I have embedded tabs
in my file and they mess up the OO formatting. So my question
was how-to change embedded tabs to spaces.
(I'll leave the 5-space indented paragraphs for another time!)
gary
PS: I think I tried both "[\t]" and " " on the replace box;
no luck.
>
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