Re: free text editor (was: [libreoffice-users] delete hidden formated text in odt)

Felipe -

The hidden text being discussed here is described at 
https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Hiding_Text
That doesn't seem to be what you're talking about?

- Robert

On Thu, 5 May 2016, Felipe T. Dorado wrote:

> Hello Luuk  : )
>
> On Thu, 5 May 2016 13:18:23 +0200, Luuk wrote:
>
> L> On 05-05-16 11:12, Piet van Oostrum wrote:
>
> L> > Save as .txt des save all text, including hidden text. Just try it out.
>
> I have, Piet.
>
> L> I think i have a different meaning of 'hidden text', than the average 
> L> reader here .... :-)
>
> It would seem so.
> Re-inventing the wheel isn't either smart nor efficient:
>
> I wrote a file containing just:
>
> "This an ODT file written in LibreOffice 5.1.
> "
>
> I saved it in LO native format:                         an_odt_file.odt
> Then I saved it as text (plain, flat, ascii):           an_odt_file.txt
>
> I listed the directory where I saved them and:
>
>         bytes   date                    file
>         8628    may  5 20:07    an_odt_file.odt
>             49  may  5 20:07    an_odt_file.txt
>
> I opened the txt file with various text editors (nano, leafpad, gedit,
> even notepad through wine) and have not been able to find any "hidden
> text" ...  Just 49 bytes including spaces and Line Feed.
> What do people understand by "hidden text"? The coding put there
> by a word processor?
> Saving a file as text is just that: saving it as text  (plain, flat, ascii)
> with nothing else.
>
> M$Win seems to produce strange things in how some users conceive files:
> macros, scripts, programs, etc. just to strip the good old codes WordStar,
> WordPerfect and many others  nowadays simply _hide away_ so the user cannot
> see them. But they are there, doing their tasks.
>
> Text is text. Just like this I've just written is text and nothing more.
>
> Felipe  : )
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