From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 02:22:28 2010 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 B537E106564A for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from henry.olyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 695E38FC12 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg8 with SMTP id 8so581007qwg.13 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:22:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=A0WJ/DoVAu3V+FmDQlnR0mn+x0HStCaGE+LWF/kKs7s=; b=r1c/9ceHvsdwCeedpxW3IrxJlHTAE5VoQH4Sr2YgTw39jnqjo0Y32FsSpdd9pTs/ix K/73nwdx9WzPfF7g3aNBtslpwf1gsLjsKHUj9HRjYNAgSpOjGW41PfC39sKj9gS0N7RX 1Ip7b343sPHC0eYcPKb2fN42tTQ75t42Maglw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=O99NrSQE+GULkY1uwaOW44+jtqokERd3SLNXe4EEIgptE0PyXMrg7PanHrISyLKl8V ubvN8Ic3RNn03JPoGnJF+eVB1+atrUcfbkoFgMDCmvJP6TNgz233typYMETIwNYLLLHO hS/MBylYUKyUo/qm7lpV/Roi3Y13n3nxJndJc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.238.193 with SMTP id kt1mr2530720qcb.292.1288318946546; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:22:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.249.195 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:22:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org> References: <20101028171236.GA11410@thought.org> <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400 Message-ID: From: Henry Olyer To: Gary Kline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: slightly OT... . 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: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:22:28 -0000 I wrote some files using a MacBook and saved them as .RTF files. And discovered that I couldn't move them to FreeBSD and use AbiWord. What do I to make them work? On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Sorry: don't bother with this [below]; there weren't that many > embedded quotes. By-hand worked fine. > > --g > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:12:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > First, since abiword and OOo both work across many platforms, > > this isn't a FreeBSD question, but humor me anyway. > > > > A [long] while ago I checked on the OOOForums list and got the > > howto's of changing "this into ``this'' in openoffice. [[And > > 'this into `this': it's a two-fer]]. Has anybody tried this > > with abiword?? Clues, tips please? (Figure I'll ask here > > first.) > > > > My ascii-to-markup program does the same thing, but only for > > double-quotes since the fact that the zillions of contractions > > like can't, would've, and informal english like "So: howzit > > hangin'?" gave me *many* second thoughts. > > > > 1) Does anybody onlist have any idea howto turn 'this' into > > &lsquo' ? In the HTML ampersand chars list, that's what it > > is called. Using the ampersand and ints it is "⁞" -- > > minus the quotes, of course. > > > > 2) Iwould like some clues howto automate this either via > > abiword OR algorithm. It took some large N days back in > > 1994 when I first hacked atom to realize that I would have > > to use recursion to get the left|beginning and > right|closing > > double quotes. > > > > 3) Or should I give up and do this by eyeball?! > > > > tia, > > > > gary > > > > > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > > The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > http://journey.thought.org > > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > http://journey.thought.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >