I receive a lot of documents by email. I copy and paste these into LibreOffice
Writer.
In these documents, the lines are short and they each end
with a paragraph break; between two paragraphs there are two paragraph breaks.
I just installed Linux Mint KDE 17.3 last night. It came with LibreOffice
Writer 5.0.3.2.
In my previous LibreOffice Writer install [I don’t know which version it was],
I was able to use Alternative Find and Replace to clean this up in 4 steps:
-
Replace \p\p with xxxxxx - this would replace the true paragraphs, the
portions separated by two paragraph breaks with a nonsense phrase, I used xxxxxx -
Replace \p with an empty space - this replaces the extraneous paragraph
break at the end of each short line of text with an empty space -
Replace double empty spaces with single space - this makes things prettier
-
Replace xxxxxx with \p - This restores proper paragraph breaks at the end of
each paragraph.
However, with this new version of LibreOffice Writer, Alternative find and
replace refuses to find instances of two paragraph breaks. It says noe are
found. It will find each break one at a time if I search for \p, but if I
search for \p\p, it says there are none in the document - but there are many.
Did something change in version 5.0.3.2? I am doing things exactly the vdery
same way now as I did yesterday with my previous install of Linux, but today
the new install just won’t work.
I’d appreciate any advice or alternatives that someone might recommend. Thank
you very much for reading this and for your help.