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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - FILESAVE: "Save as Text" doesn't put end-of-line after each line shown on screen"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114080#c12">Comment # 12</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - FILESAVE: "Save as Text" doesn't put end-of-line after each line shown on screen"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114080">bug 114080</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:jmichael_ll@yahoo.com" title="Jay Michael <jmichael_ll@yahoo.com>"> <span class="fn">Jay Michael</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Buovjaga from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=114080#c11">comment #11</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Jay Michael from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=114080#c0">comment #0</a>)
> Why do you expect this? It does no make any sense to me. You have to format
> your text in Writer to behave like you want, with line or paragraph breaks.</span >
I expect this mainly because it seems to me to be the obvious behavior: I
used a word processor so lines would be reflowed when I edited. (As opposed to
painfully reflowing by hand after an insertion or deletion, or just putting up
with painfully inconsistent line lengths.) I expect the output of a word
processor to attempt to preserve the appearance of my document. To me, this
means having an end-of-line mark at the end of every line that was displayed on
the screen. I understand that this does not guarantee that the recipient will
see what I saw while creating the document, but if I keep my usable space
narrow enough, most of my recipients will see what I intend them to see.
As justification for my expectation, I offer the observation that this was
the behavior in other word processors. (In particular, the last version of
WordPerfect I used.)
I *am* formatting my text to *look* like I want. I am setting the margins
to limit the width of the formatted text. I am setting the font to what I
expect my recipient will be using. I used paragraph breaks, and expect that
they will limit any reformatting that occurs. All I'm asking is that the
output include a mark wherever a line ended on the screen.
Maybe the confusion comes from a disagreement over the purpose of Save as
Text. The current form is probably the most suitable for use in transferring a
document to another word processor. For me, the purpose is to produce a text
file suitable for use as the content of an e-mail message, or to produce a text
file for transfer to a device that does not have a word processor capable of
interpreting an .ODT file.</pre>
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