On 03/06/2012 05:41 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
Suppose you have a simple LyX document like:
First line.
Second line.
Third line.
and export this as plain text. When viewed in a text editor, it looks
like:
First line.
Second line.
Third line.
which seems wrong to me. If I had exported to LaTeX or TeX then the
blank lines would correctly mark the ends of paragraphs, but in a
plain text document they are artifacts which shouldn't be there.
Plain text export breaks paragraphs with newlines, to keep the lines to
the right sort of length.
So paragraphs are separated by double newlines.
When looking at the list of converters in Tools>Preferences>File
Handling>Converters I couldn't see a converter producing simply plain
text. Does that mean the export with the extra lines is part of the
LyX code base?
Yes. It's a "backend", like LaTeX or XHTML or DocBook.
Richard
