Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:22:26 -0400 From: Henry Olyer <henry.olyer@gmail.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: slightly OT... . Message-ID: <AANLkTinQqXwnvOwYA5E6RWNmGP62dqKgOfNczWd-1bOy@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org> References: <20101028171236.GA11410@thought.org> <20101028190609.GA12329@thought.org>
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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 <kline@thought.org> 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" >
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