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

On 2012-10-21 11:25, charles meyer wrote:
> Hi Brian,
>
> Yes, you got it. My goal is to open (not paste in) saved plain text
> files in a blank, newly opened Libre Write document.
>
> I've visited Preformatted Style and change the style to Bookman Old 12
> point, clicked Apply  and then saved it (or so I thought) only for it
> to always default back to Courier New 10 point when I open any plain
> text file.
>
> I've created a Default font with Bookman Old 12 point but Libre Write
> automatically opens all *saved* plain text files to Preformatted Style
> not Default.
>
> I just wondered if there was any way to change which style Libre
> Writer will open *saved* plain text files automatically to since Libre
> Writer does not seems to save changes to the Prefromatted Style?
>
> Oddly enough if you click Format>Styles the drop down list of
> autonomic styles Preoformated is *not* listed.
>
> You must list all styles to find it.
>
> Following webmaster-Kracked's inspiration, I saved a document as Text
> Encoded but whne I re-opened the file it still opens all documents
> saved as Text Encoded and/or Plain Text in the Performatted Style.
>
> The key seems to be induing Libre Writer to open Text Encoded and/or
> Plain Text files to either Default (where I have it set to Bookman Old
> 12 point) or another style which does not require Courier New 10
> point.
>
> Has anyone on the list successful changed the style Text Encoded or
> Plain Text files open to?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Charles.
>
> Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Writer - Opening plain text
> documents to desired font
> From:Brian Barker<b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
> Date:Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:21:49 +0100
> To:users@global.libreoffice.org
>
> <snip>
>
> There are two issues here, I think.  In order to change the
> Preformatted Text paragraph style you have to have a document open -
> and the change is made to the style in that document, not in your
> installation of LibreOffice.  So your change is ignored when you open
> the new document from your plain text file.  The way around that might
> seem to be to create a template containing your modified Preformatted
> Text paragraph style and then to set that as the default template.
> You can certainly do that.  Now you would probably expect in this case
> that when you open your plain text file the new text (Writer) document
> would be created from your new modified default template, but -
> perhaps perversely - it appears to be opened using the original
> "default" default template, ignoring your desired change.
>
> I trust this helps (though I doubt it does).
>
> Brian Barker

Charles/Brian:

I found one way to "view" a plain text file in something other than the 
default "Courier New 10 pt' when it is opened.  If you go into 
Tools|Options|Fonts, you can use font substitution to change the 
"Courier New 10 pt" font to a different font.  FYI: This will impact any 
other documents that use the "Courier New" font that may not be plain 
text files.

Maybe this helps,

TomW

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