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Can I post (update) a single HTML "chapter" into an otherwise odt story?

CowboyZG 🚫

I'm an newbie poster and still experimenting with format transfers, specifically indents. I write in LibreOffice Writer and generally shy away from HTML because, once closed, the file seems to become a read-only web page. In any event, I prefer working in odt snd am satisfied with format transfers--EXCEPT for italics and indents. I have recently posted False Trail in odt and I would like to update the chapters that were to have some indents, using HTML files to update those odt chapters. Will this fly? Or will it bring down the wrath of the powers that be as the SOL servers go into meltdown and Canada lets fly its nuclear arsenal at southern Arizona?
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@CowboyZG

I would like to update the chapters that were to have some indents, using HTML files to update those odt chapters. Will this fly?

No. The SOL Wizard will remove indents.

It does allow blockquote if that's the type of indenting you want to do.

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@CowboyZG

chapters that were to have some indents

You mean blocks of indented paragraphs?

our ODT converter can detect block quoted text in odt files, I could never for the life of me figure out how to specify block quote in LibreOffice.

To indent a bunch of paragraphs, type {block} {/block} around them like so:

{block}

paragraph, some text here

paragraph, some more text

paragraph, even more and more text.

etc..

{/block}

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@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

I could never for the life of me figure out how to specify block quote in LibreOffice.

In Word (so I assume it's similar in LibreOffice), you select the paragraph(s) by highlighting them and then right click to bring up the paragraph settings. Then you select the right and left indents.

Or, rather than the right click, use the "layout" in the ribbon at the top to specify the left and right indents.

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@Switch Blayde

In Word (so I assume it's similar in LibreOffice), you select the paragraph(s) by highlighting them and then right click to bring up the paragraph settings. Then you select the right and left indents.

That doesn't create a true block quote. It simply styles the text with left and right margin of the specified width.

ETA: I'm getting senile it seems. I found it. It's the 'Quotations' paragraph style.

That's what happens when you start a complicated piece of code and finish it years later. I had created a translation table for tags and had the 'Quotations' paragraph style mapped into blockquote and forgot all about it.

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@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

It's the 'Quotations' paragraph style.

Where is that documented? I did a search on "quotation" in most of the categories in the "Text Formatting Information & Guide" and didn't get a match.

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@Switch Blayde

Where is that documented? I did a search on "quotation" in most of the categories in the "Text Formatting Information & Guide" and didn't get a match.

It's wasn't, but now it is. I added a note to the odt formatting support. It's specific to ODT conversion. LibreOffice has 'Quotations' as a default style that works like blockquote in HTML.

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