[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 114080] FILESAVE: "Save as Text" doesn' t put end-of-line after each line shown on screen

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114080

--- Comment #17 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to Jay Michael from comment #16)

> > Setting Resolved => INVALID
> 
>      Is INVALID further from me getting what I want than WONTFIX was?

No. For this "enhancement" to be denied WONTFIX would require it to be a valid
request. INVLAID is simply stating that the issue reported or requested
development is out of scope or inappropriate for the project.

You comment "I expect...", "...text I want", "I expect this mainly because it
seems to me to be the obvious behavior..."

And we are telling you what you get with LibreOffice's Save-As handling of
.txt, as you confirm for yourself in comment 7.

Our internal layout handling (line width, indentation, kerning, justification)
deals with text streams composed onto a document canvas. The line breaks are
not stored with the stream--rather are recalculated dynamically as controlled
by paragraph endings, or manual Line feeds and as influenced by other objects
present on the document canvas. 

When filter exported to .txt, the paragraph endings (and any manual line feeds)
will be included but no other formatting or layout. Typical text with just
paragraph ends will not be wrapped in the .txt export result. That is normal
and expected.

Your request would require development of a new, more complicated export filter
that would need to interpret the text layout onto document canvas and then
correctly insert linefeeds to maintain the same line breaks in the exported
text.  It is abnormal and not otherwise expected and frankly too specialized to
be anything more than a corner case.

These types of specialized tools are appropriately handled as extensions--not
in the LibreOffice core.

"FILESAVE: "Save as Text" doesn't put end-of-line after each line shown on
screen" => INVALID, because it is the correct behavior, nor should it.

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