At 13:54 03/01/2015 -0800, Allen Schaaf wrote:
Actually I mean "end of line" created by using the "Enter" key.
Sorry, but that's confused. Pressing Enter does not just end a line
but ends a paragraph. You won't understand what you are doing if you
try to persuade yourself otherwise. If you separate your lines of
text using Enter, you are creating separate paragraphs, not just
separate lines. If you want to break up text into lines within a
paragraph, you can use line breaks (Shift+Enter) instead. But I
appreciate that you are not talking here about doing this yourself
but trying to remove what can happen when you paste in text from elsewhere.
I'm not sure what you call that marker in computer code, but back
when I was a printer it was called a paragraph marker and used to
signal when to start a new paragraph when proofreading. It was a
backward P with two legs and is still shown that way in symbol tables.
As it happens, you don't really need a name for this, as - in
OpenOffice-think - it doesn't really exist. By that I mean that you
cannot actually search for it explicitly in OpenOffice; instead you
need to search for the paragraphs and empty paragraphs that surround
it. As you suggested, this behaviour is different from some other
editors, including Microsoft Word.
[In response to: Go to Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply. This should
merge single-line paragraphs into the real paragraphs you need.]
The problem I have found with this is that I lose the real paragraph
breaks that I need to see in order to do formatting. I do use
paragraph styles to set the proper leading between paragraphs.
Sometimes I need to change the leading between paragraphs to avoid
awkward breaks across pages. Then I remove the blank paragraphs.
If your "real" paragraph breaks are no different from the unwanted
ones between lines, it may be that there is no solution, of course.
(But AutoCorrect does seem to be able to guess remarkably well.) I
was understanding you to mean that your material had real paragraph
breaks marked by intervening empty paragraphs. In that case the
technique works, I think.
No, I don't [use empty paragraphs for vertical spacing]. Having done
typography for a number of years I know better.
Good-oh! Apologies.
Sorry, I missed [the earlier advice] somehow, ...
No probs! I was just joshing.
Brian Barker
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