From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 19:42:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1F51065A8C for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 19:42:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539B28FC19 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 19:42:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n4RJi131046063; Wed, 27 May 2009 12:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 12:42:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:42:52 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: utisoft@gmail.com Message-ID: <20090527194252.GA25178@thought.org> References: <20090526180435.GA3980@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: turning [x]html files into .odt files. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:42:59 -0000 On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:21:26PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/26 Gary Kline : > > [[ ... ]] > > > > In a few days, I'll have a fair bit of spare time. I can make a port > then, if no-one more experienced wants to snap it up. > > Like your Jottings, by the way. > Well THANKS! First time I've been honored by someone from this list on my mumblings:) (Should be done within two years.) Back to the OOo and the italics and the “ and ” stuff. A fellow, "BillP" on one of the ooforums gave the following snippet to italicize *this* : Click at the beginning of the doucment then use Find & Replace. Check "Regular Expressions". Search For: \*([^\*]*)\* Replace With: $1 Select Format > Font > Italic for the Replace With box. Click Replace All. This simple regex incantation worked flawwlessly. But BillP's instructions to the " and " into opening and closing quotes failed. He said to pull down Tools -> AutoCorrect. --let me see if i can cut/paste. nope, but lynx -dump works. Originally this was better formatted in a smaller typeface: You can replace the quotes with custom quotes using Format > AutoCorrect > Apply, but don't don't do that until you check the AutoCorrect Options. Select Tools > AutoCorrect Options. On the Options pane, uncheck any options under the [M] column which you don't want applied. On the Custom Quotes pane, enable the replacement of quotes and close the AutoCorrect dialog. Apply the Default paragraph style to all paragraphs with quotes (AutoCorrect only works on paragraphs with the Default style). Select Format > Autocorrect > Apply. After Autocorrect finishes, the affected paragraphs will have the Text Body paragraph style, so you will have to change them if you want some other paragraph style. The first three indented points were clear enough. There were several [M]-column items that I unchecked. I did check both the single- and double-quote typeset-looking glyphs. Wasn't sure about the "Apply the Default paragraph style" pointer and wound up trying for several hours until my arm/shoulder almost fell off. Maybe somebody who has time can use vi/nvi/vim to type "Hello." Or, more simply, create testfile with OOo and type "Hello." try the above instructions. See if the plain " and " are turned into left-/right-quotes. O/wise, waiting a few days: n. p. Meanwhile I found one paragraph in my novel that need some work. It's over 150K words of action/adventure, and there's this one snafu. gary > Chris > > > -- > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 4.91a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php