From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 26 00:43:44 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 86A3C106566C for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:43:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CC268FC13 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 00:43:43 +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 n4Q0ihXa020492; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:44:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Mon, 25 May 2009 17:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 17:43:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20090526004334.GA28827@thought.org> References: <20090525214604.GA28439@thought.org> <20090525234553.5cf60022@gluon.draftnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090525234553.5cf60022@gluon.draftnet> 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: OOo question re my novel... 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: Tue, 26 May 2009 00:43:44 -0000 On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:45:53PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 2009 14:46:07 -0700 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > guys, > > > > one thing i need to do before i submit my 600+ page tell-all "novel" > > is fihure out howto turn *this* into italics in Ooo-3.01. i don't > > think any regular publisher world risk this so it;s a roll-you-own. > > what i submit in doc [or odt] is what gets published. i can turn > > *this* into /this/, but still can't figure out how to have openoffice > > turn all the words i want italicized into actual italics. > > > > anybody know offhand? > > http://opendocumentfellowship.com/introduction/odf_vs_oxml_part_II has > an example of changing text styles in ODF. It looks like it should be a > search/replace to add the relevant tags. > i'm still lost. i've read the wiki page and don't see anything very instructive, and i've found your opendoc url and don't understadn mucg more. my source files, all 66 chapters, are in plain ascii with the asterisks indicating italics. once or twice i did something like % swriter ch35 and some or all of the *words* were boldface. nornally, OO just printed "*words*". i have a non-public program, atom, that turns acsii into markup. it would turn "Hi *there*" into "Hi there ... so if i can point OO at my html/xtml file and wind up with a correct *.odt file, that would work. gary > -- > Bruce Cran -- 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