On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 Susmita/Rajib wrote: [trimmed: email headers included in message body]
Ok, I shall abide by your greater wisdom.
I deny this accusation.
I would have been better guided by a simple instruction to inform you about the binary for the line breaks, paragraph marks, et al. With a little introduction. So here goes:
While forensic details of your plain text document's file format is interesting and not unhelpful, I apologise for being unclear when I wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 davidson (DAV): DAV> What indicates a "paragraph break" in a given style depends on DAV> the form, not the content, of the material to be processed. By the term "form", above, I meant the style of the document not the file format of its digital representation. I should have said "document" instead of "material". DAV> It is the style of paragraph that you must reveal here Paragraph style is apparent to the casual observer. Hopefully you will find that one of the examples below match your document style. If not, I trust you can present us with a couple of short example paragraphs populated with lorem ipsum which do.
Libre Office file is used as the Editor to write the article.
You compose your original document in Libre Office. Understood.
It was used to convert the main file in plain text file for the purpose of diff.
You then export it to plain text file format before processing it with tools designed for plain text. Sensible.
Beginning of the article in Bin:
I am not familiar with Bin, but I imagine it is a hex viewer/editor.
[Bin code] EF BB BF 0A 0A 0A 4A 75 73 74 20 41 20 53 74 61 74 69 6F 6E 20
^^ ^^ ^^ The first three bytes there are a unicode BOM, or Byte Order Mark, encoded in utf-8. It is harmless. Libre Office probably put it there. It conveniently suggests that we are looking at unicode characters encoded in utf-8. Next follow three newlines (normally displayed as three blank lines at the top of the document).
[/Bin code] Translates to text in a text editor: "Some unreadable characters
The BOM, presumably...
and Just A Station"
...with 'J' flush to the lefthand margin. That phrase being followed by a space (The Final Frontier).
Paragraph break with the key "Enter" is 0A.
I am aware of no paragraph style that does not include a newline. This does not help narrow things down, unless one construes the next two items to complete the characterisation of a paragraph break.
Line Break with the combo keys "Shift Enter" is also 0A. Space with Space Bar is 20.
Are saying that this entire sequence of three keystrokes is how you type a paragraph break? So that your paragraphs look like this (but wider)? Mystery House Style_____ This is one paragraph, written within twenty- four columns. Here is another one, written within those same twenty-four col- umns. ________________________ If so, please confirm. Otherwise, here are some alternatives: Plain Style_____________ These paragraphs are set in "plain" style. As you can see, its first line is indented. In plain style, there is not usually a blank line dividing each paragraph. The precise depth of the indentation is not important. Its presence is what matters. ________________________ Flush Style_____________ Do all O'Reilly books exhibit this style? Are they trying to instill hygienic practices sub- liminally? In this style, a blank line indicates the end of one paragraph and the beginning of, if not a better paragraph, at least a new one. ________________________ Hanging Style___________ Also called the Epstein style, this one is probably not the one you are using in your document. At least, not unless you are writing a glossary, or some kind of dictionary. ________________________ I will be surprised if one of these styles is not the one you are using. -- It is close to an axiom for me that when rich people expend considerable sums of other people's money to persuade me something is good for us, to disbelieve them. -- George Galloway