[Scribus] When getting text from txt file, line terminates too soon..

[Kevin Cole]

On 7/19/07, dax702 <dax702 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Yes, you understand the problem perfectly.  The soft returns created by
> reaching the end of the line while typing convert to hard returns.  I
> couldn't think of how to articulate what exactly was happening..  I've used
> Open Office before, it was a while ago.  As I recall, their .wpd import
> filter wasn't all that great.  Perhaps it has improved by now.. I'll check
> out OO again unless someone has another suggestion where I don't need
> another piece of software?

Am I misremembering or wasn't there a way to save Word and WP files as
two different types of plain-text, one of which exported soft returns
as spaces rather than interpreting them as hard returns? (It's been a
while since playing with either, but I thought there was a better way
to export/save as...)

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