find and replace hard cr LO SOLVED!

[dougmack]

Have pasted in a typed-up email with hard carriage returns.  How do I get rid of them so as to be able to fully justify the text?
I seem to remember seeing some kind of character that you could use to indicate a hard CR, but I don't know what it was.
Please answer soon, I'm on a deadline!
Thank you!  --doug

[YouCanToo]

Have you tried running "dos2unix" on it. That may do the job that you need.  dos2unix is in the repository

dos2unix - Convert text files with DOS or Mac line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa.

usage: dos2unix filename

[dougmack]

Well, that sort of works, but only sort of.  It definitely does what it claims.  But LO, when set to full justify, spaces all the
words         in      the          last       line       of     a        paragraph         like          this       to        make         the        last         word         come          here   

This is driving me crazy!

--doug

[YouCanToo]

Sorry it was just an idea.

[ternor]

Look in Help under "regular expressions" or "list of regular expressions."  You may find an expression '\n' represents a line break.  How well search and replace works with regular expressions in LO I don't know.  Try searching the LO user list or the OO forum.

[old_guy]

dougmack

In LO select View > Nonprinting Characters (Ctrl + F10). Then you should be able to delete those characters and then set it up to full justify.

Earl

[aguila]

If it's a long document it's gonna take a looooong while.

I tried to find out how to do it in LO but to no avail.

However, writing a text in Kate and hitting the enter/return button at the end of the line, I could replace the line breaks selecting "regular expressions" and putting \n in the search box.

Not what you asked for, but maybe it helps anyway.

[dougmack]

I haven't figured it out either.  Still looking.  I have a q into the Symphony forum, Sym being a close cousin (and much more polished!).
I looked up Kate--it's supposed to be part of kdebase, but I have all of kdebase installed (according to symanic) and I don't have Kate.

Thanx for looking.--doug

[YouCanToo]

you would have to install the kdesdk4-kate package to get kate installed.

[dougmack]

Thanx, YouCanToo--I've done that.  Now to see what happens. . . .

--doug

[dougmack]

OK, here's the answer.  It's clumsy, but it works.  Hi-lite the text in the email message, copy and paste it into Kate.  Hi-lite one paragraph at a time, being sure to stop just after the period--"full stop" to you Brits. You will wind up with a page of single endless lines.  Hi-lite the whole page and copy. Paste
into Symphony (or LO, if you hate IBM) and it will come out with each paragraph fitted between the margins, with no end-of-line information stuck to it.
Now Hi-lite the whole page, and select the full-justified icon and apply. 
Because going from Kate to Symphony stripped out the quote marks and made them square boxes, you'll have to go and fix all of them.  Before you
do, set the word processor to use custom quotes, so you get curly quotes instead of inch marks.  Now edit the whole body of text as you would have
done if it had come to you in this form in the first place.  Whew!

SOLVED.

Thanx for the various inputs.  Kate was the key.  I don't know why the other editing software couldn't do this, but maybe I'm just to stupid to
figure out how.  anyway, now I know (and you know) a way to do the job.

--doug

[dougmack]

Sorry, I left out one important thing.

'Hi-lite one paragraph at a time, being sure to stop just after the period--"full stop" to you Brits.'     HERE ADD:

Go to tools, and select  Join Lines.       THEN CONTINUE:

"You will wind up with a page of single endless lines. etc...."

--doug

[YouCanToo]

How about writing up a "howto" about this and putting it in the Knowledge Base  http://pclinuxoshelp.com

[dougmack]

I'd be glad to.  I have sent YouCanToo a message with all the information I think is needed to set up an account to contribute.
--doug

[aguila]

Really cool that you got it working.
 
Glad I could be of some help.