On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:58:56AM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: > I was sent an ascii file that used Ctrl-M's as paragraph terminators. It > looks good in vi, but LyX is ignoring the Ctrl-M's completely. I finally > opened the file in Netscape and pasted it to LyX. What does LyX > recognize as a text paragraph terminator? Is this a bug? I got the same > effect importing as lines or paragraphs.
The standard line seperator under *nix is Ctrl-J, so I guess Ctrl-M gets interpreted as 'simple space' You could try to replace the Ctrl-M's by Ctrl-J's by running e.g. tr '\015' '\012' < in.txt > out.txt Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]