Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 10815
Converting Line break to paragraph break
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:24 UTC
It's often convenient to convert between paragraph breaks and line breaks. Find/replace is the ideal tool. In Microsoft Word, UltraEdit, and similar programs, these breaks are encoded as \p and \n (or ^p and ^n, ...). So they can be used in find/replace operations. OpenOffice 1.0.1 has no such distinction it seems. There is no equivalent to \p. And \n can represent both types of break in the same dialog box! The 1.0.1 help file says: "\n Finds a hard row break which has been inserted with Shift+Enter. Use this sign to change row breaks into paragraph breaks. Enter a \n in the Search for as well as the Replace with fields [!!!both fields at once!!!]. Now activate the Replace all button." Simple tests show even this much information to be inaccurate. The operation as described does not work. How about a proper \p expression? Secondly I wonder about general regular expressions. There are some good C/C++ regex engines out there (PCRE comes to mind). Which one does OpenOffice use, if any? Regards. Mark
The display option for "Nonprinting Characters" has good notations for paragraph breaks, tabs, and space bar characters. Manual line breaks should be better represented. In 1.0.1 they are empty square boxes. Some programs use a bent arrow to indicate non-paragraph line breaks. That's a pretty good choice. (Maybe this should be a separate issue but since it relates so closely, I posted here. Feel free to move/fork this comment.)
Reassigned to BH
Thank you for your issue Mark. This issue will be reviewed. Changed prio.
*** Issue 19141 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This clearly is a duplicate of issue 25177 - please decide which one to keep.
*** Issue 53063 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 62984 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I feel this should have a higher priority - this is really quite important in terms of what other writer programs offer e.g. MS Word. In particular Issue 62984 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=62984 needs to be resolved here.
*** Issue 76919 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
As the fix for this issue may break backwards compatibility, the time to do it is between major versions. Thus, this issue should be given higher priority to be fixed before the 3.0 release. Also see bug #15666 for much more discussion on the topic.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".