Re: [libreoffice-users] Tab defaults change when pasting into Writer from some other applications

Sorry for the delay in responding.  Too many other things going on.

-- Tim
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On 10/26/2014 4:56 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 16:25 26/10/2014 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:
> > On 10/26/2014 02:13 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> > > At 13:51 26/10/2014 -0400, Tim Deaton wrote:
> > > > I'm currently running LO v4.2.6.3 on Windows 7, 64-bit, SP1.
> > > >
> > > > I use Writer primarily to create notes for Bible study lessons. In 
> > > > that process, I often copy text into Writer from other programs 
> > > > (most likely e-Sword and TheWord (two free Bible software programs 
> > > > which, I think, both use the SQLite open-source database program).  
> > > > The template I use for this has the default tab-stop setting 
> > > > (Tools|Options|LO Writer|General) set to 0.25 inch.
> > > >
> > > > My problem is that when copying text passages from those (and 
> > > > perhaps other) programs into LO, that default tab-stop gets reset 
> > > > to 0.5 inch, so that I have to go into the Options to change it 
> > > > back after each copy/paste.  I don't know when exactly this 
> > > > behavior started, but I do know this resetting did not happen when 
> > > > I was using OOo and then LO 3.x.  It either started with LO 4.0 or 
> > > > 4.1.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure why you would want to use default tab stops at all. 
> > > They are so close that you often need to add multiple consecutive 
> > > tab characters, and this is surely a recipe for your documents being 
> > > fragile and not robust to changes of font, paper size, printer, 
> > > platform, and so on? Tab stops are a property of paragraph styles. 
> > > Why not set up a paragraph style with just the tab stops you 
> > > actually need and then apply this style to the text (very easily 
> > > done) immediately after pasting
> >
> > What about using paste special the "Unformatted text" option after 
> > creating the paragraph style you want?
>
> I'm not sure how that helps. In any case, the questioner originally 
> said he wanted to retain elements of formatting in the copied text.
>
> Brian Barker
Thanks for your comments, and your patience.

The reason for the .25" tab stops (about 6mm) is that in these documents 
I do a lot of outline-type indenting, but without the outline 
numbering.  Also, the pasted-in scripture sections use .25" hanging 
indents in one of the source programs, and I like to keep that.  It's 
NOT for tabbed spaces in the middle of a line.

When I started using OOo for this, I set up a template just for these 
documents, and brought that over to LO when I switched.  The .25" 
default tab stops are part of that template.  Given its age, I doubt I 
used styles then, but I really don't remember.   I just know that the 
default setting used to not be bothered by the stuff I paste in from 
eSword and TheWord, but now it is.

Here's a link to a recent document:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50459876/ss20141026.Heb8.odt
(I wanted to include this on my original post, but computer problems - 
part of the "too many other things" above - prevented that.)

- Tim D.

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