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

[Gregory Pittman]

Kevin Cole wrote:
> 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...)
>   
I suppose this could be true, but if you can't remember which plain text 
export it is, it's still frustrating.

Greg