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

On 10/19/2012 11:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> 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
     Perhaps I did miss the point. So, here is another thought. Open 
the desired template which creates an untitled document with its styles. 
Then Insert > File. Browse to the text document. Click Open. In my case, 
the plain text was formatted with the desired format.
      There must be a difference of how LO handles a text file when it 
opens it vs when it inserts it.

--Dan

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