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'

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