openoffice question

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Could you use a SED script to place a dash at the begging of each line?

Peter

> Hi all,
>
>    I take my work notes using openoffice, and I use a point form style.
> At the end of the month, I need to copy and paste these notes into a web
>   form which only supports plain text. All this is fine, except for one
> annoying little time waster...
>
>    OO automatically creates bullets for me when I start a line with a
> hyphen. This looks great in OO and makes my notes very easy to read
> (content aside). However, when I copy/paste the hyphen-style bullets are
> lost in the plain text (same if I paste into an editor like kate). This
> means I have to go back and manually enter the dash before each
> sentence, which is quite the waste of time.
>
>    Does anyone know of a way that I could copy the bullets as hyphens
> and pasting from OO to a plain text medium?
>
>    Thanks!
>
> Madi
>
> PS - Saving as text or RTF doesn't help...
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