Re: [libreoffice-users] Multiple newlines

Hi Brian,

On 2020-07-21 14:09, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 01:16 21/07/2020 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
> ...
> > AutoCorrect had the effect of changing most non-empty "Default Style" paragraphs to "Text Body" style, with the rest chosen [by spacing hints?] to be "Hanging Indent", 
> > "Heading", "Heading 1", "List", "List 1", "Numbering 2" or "Text Body Indent". (Empty paragraphs remained "Default Style".)  That 
> > was a MUCH more elaborate and sophisticated AutoCorrect than I ever would have imagined.
>
> You may or may not want all that to happen. If not, it is wise to use this technique first, before 
> applying any other formatting. You can then choose to select all the text and apply a paragraph 
> style of choice - Default, Text Body, or whatever.

As I said, I was surprised that AutoCorrect had the effect of sorting different plain text paragraphs into 
different paragraph styles. I would never have expected "AutoCorrect" to include a function so 
ambitious, and am still thinking about the implications. [What is the basis for assigning paragraphs to 
styles? Does this imply something reserved about certain styles, or are styles profiled (if so, how? - on 
what basis?) for this function?] The least one can say it that it's inarguably clever - and as a practical 
matter, cleaning up from that was not burdensome.

But, in time, I would love to know.  After all, every other AutoCorrect function is a product of 
explicit rules. I'm sure this is also, but have not had time to think about what those rules would 
be, and how they are built. [Just a couple days ago that I was thinking in terms of editors parsing 
on specific (low-ASCII) codes rather than XML statements. I'm still adjusting. ;-) ]

John

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