[libreoffice-users] Re: Remove all paragraph and other formatting except for character attributes eg italics, bold etc

At Sat, 29 Aug 2015 16:12:36 +0100 Brian Barker wrote:
> > On 2015-08-29 21:34, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > I know about the "Clear Formatting" commands but that removes ALL
> > formatting - I just want to remove page and paragraph formatting and
> > leave character attributes alone eg italics, bold etc - is it possible
> > to do that somehow?

> You cannot remove page and paragraph formatting, since every page and
> every paragraph has to have some format or other. But you can reset
> these to some other value or default.
>
> The only page formatting in a Writer document is page style formatting,
> so you need just to modify the page style(s) in your document or to
> apply a suitable page style - perhaps Default - to all your material.
> Open the Styles and Formatting window, put the cursor in turn into each
> range of pages with a particular style, and double-click the Default
> style on the Page Styles panel.
>
> Your paragraph formatting may be paragraph formatting or paragraph 
> style
> formatting, but resetting paragraph style formatting seems to trump
> paragraph formatting, so is all you need to attend to. Open the Styles
> and Formatting window, select all the material, and double-click the
> Default style on the Paragraph Styles panel.
>
> I trust this helps.


Thanks for that info - it did help - I am producing short stories 
consisting of standard paragraphs for inserting into a templated xhtml 
file - so I need to get rid of most of the formatting.  What I have 
ended up doing is:

- Use your method to get rid of some of the junk from submitted short 
stories
- Export to an xhtml file
- Use pandoc to convert to Markdown file format (which removes the rest 
of the junk I don't need)
- Use pandoc to convert back to an xhtml file format which is almost 
ready to insert into the xhtml template

Regards,

Phil.
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Philip Rhoades

PO Box 896
Cowra  NSW  2794
Australia
E-mail:  phil@pricom.com.au

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