RE: Importing a text file with hard-coded line breaks

From: Sanity in Anarchy (sanity@dog.com)
Date: Fri Mar 29 2002 - 19:03:49 EST

  • Next message: Mario Becroft: "Re: Importing a text file with hard-coded line breaks"

    Unless this has already been implemented, I believe AbiWord supports Perl. If
    so, this would be a great Abi/Perl script. Anyone feel like doing that for
    the rest of us?

    >===== Original Message From ephemeron <ephemeron@fastmail.fm> =====
    >What's the proper way to open or import a text file with hard-coded line
    >breaks (contents reproduced below). I want each group of lines that end
    >with a blank line to be grouped into a single paragraph. Opening the
    >file as "Text" produces an Abi document with poem-like breaks (stanzas,
    >rather than paragraphs, of text).
    >
    >===BEGIN TEXT BLOCK===
    >The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick
    >brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox
    >jumps over the lazy dog and ends Paragraph 1.
    >
    >The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick
    >brown fox jumps over the lazy dog and ends Paragraph 2.
    >
    >The story ends with this sentence and so does Paragraph 3.
    >===END TEXT BLOCK===
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