Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

On Thu 2014-02-20 04:51, Brian Barker wrote:
> o If you need to open the same files repeatedly to edit them, the
> obvious solution is to save them in LibreOffice's native .odt
> format.  So now we have to ask why you need plain text versions of
> the file.  If you wish to print your edited files, you would not
> want to use plain text.  If you wish to exchange your documents with
> others, you would want to use either word-processor formats (such as
> .odt or perhaps .doc) or perhaps PDFs.  You'd need plain text output
> only if you were perhaps feeding your edited results to some other
> application which required this format - and in this case it would
> be a simple matter to save a plain text copy of your edited document
> when necessary.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker

Exactly. As I said in my last message, I feed plain text into a LaTeX
compiler. I want to edit LaTeX files in an environment with both (i)
double-spaced lines, and (ii) serif fonts. No text editor I'm aware of can
do both.  LibreOffice Writer can.

It's just awful to write prose in single-spaced lines and monospaced fonts.
Writer is way more readable.

Nicolai

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