From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 20:49:03 EST
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Philippe DEFERT wrote:
>
>
> When you open a text file in abiword, it always takes it line by line,
> i.e. it adds an end of line at each LF. When you write a text in emacs
> there is an automatic wrapping to 72 columns and this inserts a LF. I
> saw in lyx a very nice feature when you import a text file, you can
> choose to get it line by line i.e each LF is an EOL or you can do the
> same paragraph by paragraph i.e. each 2 lines separated by 1 LF are
> joined, as soon that you have a blank line which is equivalent to 2
> consecutive LF, a EOL is added to make a "paragraph". This is called in
> the lyx jargon "import text as lines" or "import text as paragraphs"
>
> Is there the same feature in abiword ? If so, where can I find it, if it
> does not exist I think it could be simple to implement though very very
> useful in UNIX. I am not enough into abiword's code to do it myself...
>
No abiword does not do this and I have exactly the same problem. I'm not
this is the best way to fix it. Maybe just two <LF><LF> to be a paragraph
break?
It is easy to implement this. I might do it.
Cheers
Martin
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