Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

On 23/03/2012, Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
> Interesting problem:  An email text is received which you need to format
> for publication.
> The email uses a carriage return at the end of each line, and a double
> carriage return
> for paragraph spacing.  What I'd like to do is remove the cr's at the
> end of each line, so
> the text can be justified, and turn the double cr's into paragraph
> controls, or just leave
> as double cr's.  Obviously all this can be done a line at a time by
> hand, but it's a pain.
> Is there any way someone can suggest to automate this?

This is quickly performed by using regular expressions, either in LO
or more easily in any decent text editor.

On a separate issue, what is the syntax in LO to select paragraph
breaks (pilcrow (¶) sign) in the 'find and replace' dialogue window?

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