Re: hyphens & apostrophes
David B Teague sr <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:31:15 -0500
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080200060205030406050205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 1/27/2012 5:34 PM, thomas steel wrote: > *From:* THOMAS STEEL <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, January 27, 2012 9:44 AM > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* hyphens & apostrophes > I am struggling to recustomise OOWriter for a new computer after > burglary. > Am trying (1) to enable replacement of some hyphens by em & en dashes > (used to work by hitting hyphen twice). > Trying (2) to replace apostrophe mark (small vertical mark) with an > apostrophe comma---permanently. > Have spent hours using Help to no effect. Please can someone help me? > TM Steel Tom, Good to hear from you. Are you using OO.o or LibreOffice? I have LibreOffice, but I wind up inserting the em- and en- dashes by hand from the menu. You can assign key strokes to enter these using a macro. And OO.o used to replace two dashes (I insist they are "minus" signs) with an em-dash automatically if I pressed space after the next word, but that has stopped working. The OO.o code basd has been donated by Oracle (who bought Sun and Open Office .org) to the Apache foundation. I'll look for the address to subscribe to that mailing list as this one will go away in the not too distant future. I hope somone here will answer Tom's question in a more useful fashion and will find that address and post it before I do. With warmest regard David Teauge -- nil significat nisi oscillat -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help --------------080200060205030406050205 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 1/27/2012 5:34 PM, thomas steel wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:C262745CBD0C43FD8787356368F14207@STEELTOSH" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <div> </div> <div style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> <div style="FONT: 10pt tahoma"> <div> </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true" title="[email protected]" href="mailto:[email protected]">THOMAS STEEL</a> </div> <div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 27, 2012 9:44 AM</div> <div><b>To:</b> <a moz-do-not-send="true" title="[email protected]" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> </div> <div><b>Subject:</b> hyphens & apostrophes</div> </div> </div> <div> </div> </div> <div style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"> <div>I am struggling to recustomise OOWriter for a new computer after burglary. </div> <div>Am trying (1) to enable replacement of some hyphens by em & en dashes (used to work by hitting hyphen twice).</div> <div>Trying (2) to replace apostrophe mark (small vertical mark) with an apostrophe comma---permanently.</div> <div>Have spent hours using Help to no effect. Please can someone help me? TM Steel</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> Tom, <br> <br> Good to hear from you. Are you using OO.o or LibreOffice? I have LibreOffice, but I wind up inserting the em- and en- dashes by hand from the menu. You can assign key strokes to enter these using a macro. And OO.o used to replace two dashes (I insist they are "minus" signs) with an em-dash automatically if I pressed space after the next word, but that has stopped working. <br> <br> The OO.o code basd has been donated by Oracle (who bought Sun and Open Office .org) to the Apache foundation. I'll look for the address to subscribe to that mailing list as this one will go away in the not too distant future.<br> <br> I hope somone here will answer Tom's question in a more useful fashion and will find that address and post it before I do. <br> <br> With warmest regard<br> David Teauge<br> <br> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- nil significat nisi oscillat</pre> </body> </html> --------------080200060205030406050205--