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

At 12:08 19/10/2012 -0400, Dan Lewis wrote:
> From: Charles Meyer
> Sent: Friday, 19 October 2012, 15:44
> > 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?
>
> Stop and think about your question. If Writer were to do what you 
> wanted, it would do this for all text files. That means you might 
> later create a text document with several custom styles in it. 
> Opening this document in Writer would remove all these styles. This 
> is not a good idea.

I think you've missed the point here.  The questioner is asking about 
opening *plain* text files.  Yes: he wants to control the automatic 
paragraph style which Writer chooses for all plain text files opened 
in this way.  The text files containing custom styles that you are 
describing are formatted text (Writer) files - probably in .odt 
format.  (No doubt he will save his new documents in that format 
after he has edited them.)  Opening such .odt documents does not 
impose Preformatted Text paragraph style on anything, of course.

Brian Barker


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