Re: [libreoffice-users] anyone knows how to find/replace not-printable glyphs?

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Remy Gauthier wrote:
>
> If you need to search and replace paragraph marks and others, you can
> > use AltSearch (http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/alter
> > native-dialog-find-replace-for-writer). If have it installed on LO5.1
> > and it works fine. You look for two end of paragraph characters (select
> > from the drop-down or type in \p\p)
> > and replace with just one; repeat until there no more replacements.
> > Cheers!
> > Rémy Gauthier.
>
> I wonder about simply using search/replace and remove all end of paragraph
> marks ('\n\), replacing them with a mark of one's own like '#' (as long as
> it doesn't occur elsewhere in the text); then remove all consecutive "##'
> and replace with '\r' or '\r\r'?
>
> f.
>
> This won't work because there are no end of paragraph marks ("\n"). The
Open Document format is a form of XML, in which paragraphs are denoted by
<p>[Content]</p>.

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