At 23:13 15/04/2007 +0200, Manfred J. Krause wrote:
Hi,
Dan Lewis wrote:
[...] Brian Barker wrote:
[...] Dan Lewis wrote:
[...] Brian Barker wrote:
[...] Wanda Ochoa wrote:
[...] as a result, I have to backspace over the lf/cr to
the end of the autotext in the event I don't want to end a
line of my document with it. I make certain that I select
precisely the text I want -- without [new paragraph] at the
end of a line -- when I create the autotext. [...]
I don't seem to be able to reproduce your problem. But however
it occurs, there is, I think, a simple workaround. Once you
have created the AutoText with the unwanted trailing newline,
just go back and edit it to remove this:
o Go to Edit | AutoText... and select the appropriate entry.
o From the AutoText drop-down, select Edit. This opens a new
document with just the replacement text.
o Remove the extra newline.
o Close this document and choose the Save option.
Or does this suffer from the same problem as the original
creation?
When I edited the AutoText entry in the document that
AutoText opened, the entry had two paragraph markers.
(Nonprinting characters were ON.) I was able to remove the one on
the following line but not the first one.
But the extra, second paragraph break is the only one you *need* to
remove. You've solved the problem. Really!
No, this does not solve the problem. When I use the AutoText
to enter a word or phrase, the cursor moves to the next line,
i.e., begins a new paragraph.
Yes, it seems, there's no possibility to solve the problem with
Brian's proposition. I tried it without success.
Now I can reproduce the problem.
Always when I'm selecting
'AutoText' -> 'New (Text only)' -> 'Close'
there's afterwards a paragraph break with <F3>.
Selecting 'AutoText' -> 'New' -> 'Close'
is creating a correct version without break.
Regarding the different functions of 'New (Text only)' and 'New';
IMHO it's necessary to scrutinize resultant problems with styles and
formatting ...
IMHO it seems to be a bug.
Manfred
Thanks for this. You are quite right. If the user needs to use "New
(text only)" instead of "New" (which I didn't imagine was the case
from the original problem specification), then (1) the problem exists
and (2) my workaround will not help.
So my revised solution is:
o Use "New", not "New (text only)" from the AutoText drop-down menu
if possible.
o If you need to use "New (text only)", invoke the AutoText once,
producing the incorrect result. Then select the result but *without
the erroneous newline*, and return to AutoText to modify the existing
entry using "Replace" (not "Replace (text only)!) from the AutoText
drop-down menu. Since the creation process ("New (text only)") will
have stripped whatever was necessary, you cannot need the "(text
only)" function this time.
After this correction, the AutoText entry will behave as it should.
Brian Barker
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