[libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread nicolai . rostov
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make LibreOffice Writer open a plain text file with paragraph double-spacing already applied to all of it. My aim is to be able edit plain text files in (i) serif fonts and (ii) double-spaced paragraphs. I keep my documents in plain text but find myself hav

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread Virgil Arrington
com Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:06 PM To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make LibreOffice Writer open a plain text file with paragraph double-spacing already applied to all of it.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Nicolai, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make LibreOffice Writer open a plain text file with paragraph double-spacing already applied to all of it. My aim is to be able edit plain text files in (i) serif fonts and (ii) double-spaced paragraphs. Pla

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread nicolai . rostov
never known a way to apply paragraph > formatting to a plain text file and have it remain with the file for > later use. > > Virgil > > -Original Message- From: nicolai.ros...@gmail.com > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 1:06 PM > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > S

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread nicolai . rostov
Hello Regina, A macro is an excellent idea. Let me see how I can do that. Thanks, Nicolai On Wed 2014-02-19 20:03, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Nicolai, > > nicolai.ros...@gmail.com schrieb: > >Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make LibreOffice Writer open a plain > >text file with paragr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/02/2014, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com wrote: > > However, I couldn't get (ii). I tried to create a template in which the > "Preformatted Text" style looks the way I want it to be, and then I made > this > template default. But LibreOffice Writer just ignores the default template > when opening

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread nicolai . rostov
It might be related but I don't think my issue is a bug. As Regina has pointed out, the default template is invoked only when creating new documents. And I'm not creating new documents. I'm just opening old files. nr On Wed 2014-02-19 20:59, e-letter wrote: > On 19/02/2014, nicolai.ros...@gmail.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Nicolai, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com schrieb: Hello Regina, A macro is an excellent idea. Let me see how I can do that. Of cause you can write a "true" macro, but the needed operations are also available by the macro recorder. So you can use that tool. First you have to enable the macro r

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread nicolai . rostov
Thanks, Regina! It works! nr On Wed 2014-02-19 22:55, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Nicolai, > > nicolai.ros...@gmail.com schrieb: > >Hello Regina, > > > >A macro is an excellent idea. Let me see how I can do that. > > > > Of cause you can write a "true" macro, but the needed operations are > al

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-19 Thread Brian Barker
At 13:06 19/02/2014 -0500, Nicolai Rostov wrote: Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to make LibreOffice Writer open a plain text file with paragraph double-spacing already applied to all of it. My aim is to be able edit plain text files in (i) serif fonts and (ii) double-spaced paragraphs. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-20 Thread nicolai . rostov
On Thu 2014-02-20 04:51, Brian Barker wrote: > o If you need to open the same files repeatedly to edit them, the > obvious solution is to save them in LibreOffice's native .odt > format. So now we have to ask why you need plain text versions of > the file. If you wish to print your edited files,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-20 Thread e-letter
On 20/02/2014, nicolai.ros...@gmail.com wrote: > > Exactly. As I said in my last message, I feed plain text into a LaTeX > compiler. I want to edit LaTeX files in an environment with both (i) > double-spaced lines, and (ii) serif fonts. No text editor I'm aware of can > do both. LibreOffice Write

Re: [libreoffice-users] Open plain text with double-spacing

2014-02-21 Thread nicolai . rostov
On Thu 2014-02-20 22:25, e-letter wrote: > > It's just awful to write prose in single-spaced lines and monospaced fonts. > > Writer is way more readable. > > > > If you really prefer a text-editor, jedit offers nice ways to make > text look nice, including choice of background colour. Great! jedi