Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text documents to desired font

On 10/19/2012 11:43 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 10/19/2012 10:44 AM, charles meyer wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I'm new to Libre Office but I read how you can create your own default
> > font style and size so a blank document will open to that default
> > style and size.
> >
> > I'm trying to set Libre Writer so that when I open a saved plain text
> > (.txt) file it opens to my created default style and size.
> >
> > Right now it opens to Preformatted Text - Courier New 10 point.
> >
> > I've visited Styles and Formatting and right clicked on Preformatted
> > Text and chosen Modify and changes the font to Bookman Old 12 point
> > and clicked Apply, then OK.
> >
> > I then reopened Preformatted Text style and it indeed displays my
> > chosen font and size.
> >
> > However, still when I open a saved plain text file it opens to
> > Preformatted Text but with Courier New 10 point - not the Bookman Old
> > 12 point I chose and saved.
> >
> > Would anyone know if you can open saved plain documents to a desired
> > font style and size or are you always stuck with Courier New 10 point
> > whenever you open a plain text file?
> >
> > I know I can highlight all the text in the opened plain text file and
> > chosoe the Default style and it will change back to my desired font
> > and style but is there any way of ensuring any plain text files will
> > open to a desired font stye?
> >
> > Thank you so much,
> >
> > Charles.
> AFAIK *.txt do not store any complex formating information beyond what 
> is found in the character set (UTF-8 typically). Thus tabs, carriage 
> returns, line feeds are encoded; they are part of the character set. 
> Bold, italic, font, size are not part of the character set; thus are 
> not encoded. When you open a txt file, it appears to open using the 
> mono space font set as your system default (mine is "Droid Sans Mono", 
> 10 point). Typically, text editors use mono space fonts so that each 
> character/space has the same width which makes "eyeballing" the layout 
> for source code easier when indenting. *txt files are also called 
> "plain text" files because that is what they are just plain text.
>
> After formating the text, I would save as the file as *.odt (and *.doc 
> if sharing) formats to preserve the desired formating.
As I said in my post, USE "Text Encoded" and your .txt file will save 
the font and the style of font in the file.  Plain "TEXT" does not.,  
Encoded Text [Text Encoded] does.

Text - opened with the fixed width - i.e. MONO - font, but saving as 
Text Encoded kept the Times New Roman font formatting from the original 
document when I opened it.  The issue for me is that both formats use 
the same mime/file-extension type of ".txt".

TEXT ENCODED is the answer.  Save it in that file format and it solves 
the problem.



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