Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

On 24/03/2012, e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
Subsequent posts indicate why it is much easier to solve this question
by use of a text editor instead of LO.

For example, it seems that double carriage return is equivalent to an
empty line. As for the line feed a simple remove may be achieved in
jedit:

find
\n

replace with
[empty field]

would remove new lines and replace with a space ( ) character.

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