Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting emails

On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:01 +0000, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 09:24 24/03/2012 +0000, E. Letter wrote:
> > On a separate issue, what is the syntax in LO to 
> > select paragraph breaks (pilcrow (¶) sign) in 
> > the 'find and replace' dialogue window?
>
> There isn't one.  LibreOffice doesn't think that 
> way: you don't search for the paragraph break as 
> such.  Instead, you do what you need using ^ 
> (circumflex) to lock your search term to the 
> beginning of a paragraph or $ (dollar) to lock it 
> to the end of a paragraph.  Perversely, you can 
> search for a line break (as entered with 
> Shift+Enter) using \n (backslash-en).  Oh, but if 
> you use \n in a "Replace with" expression, it means a paragraph break instead.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker

     See if this works using Find and Replace with Regular Expressions
checked (ticked):
1) Enter ^$ into the Search for box.
2) Enter " zzz " (space then zzz then space) in the Replaced with box.
3) Click the Replace All button. This replaces the second paragraph
break 
   used for spacing between paragraphs.
4) Enter $ into the Search for box.
5) Enter a space in the Replaced with box.
6) Click the Replace All button.
7) Enter " zzz " in the Search for box.
8) Enter \n in the Replaced with box.
9) Click the Replaced All button.
     The first three steps replaces the empty paragraphs used for
spacing with the word "zzz" (space before and after the zzz allows a
later search for it). The middle three steps replaces the rest of the
paragraph breaks used as line breaks with a space. (This guarantees a
space between the last word of one line and the first word of the next
line.) The last three steps replaces the word "zzz" with a paragraph
break.
     One more search might need to be made: replace any double spaces
with a single space.

--Dan



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