On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 23:04:37 -0400 (EDT)
PETER LOVE wrote:
> Dear 'users' @ Open Office:
>
> I'm using Open Office version 4.17 but having trouble locating 'fonts' and
> 'line spacing' and small things like that for shaping up my documents. How
Dear 'users' @ Open Office:
I'm using Open Office version 4.17 but having trouble locating 'fonts' and
'line spacing' and small things like that for shaping up my documents. How do I
do these things? Please inform, or help. Thank you.
Peter Love
> On Aug 6, 2016, at 17:29, Brian Barker wrote:
>
>> 1 virus 2 viri 3 virii 4 viriv. .. 9 virix
>
> Ho, ho! A good one!
original credit goes to Rob Slade [9 was my own addition]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Slade
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jt - j...@jt-mj.net
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. H
On Sat, 8/6/16, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
Subject: Re: Double line spacing
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Date: Saturday, August 6, 2016, 4:43 PM
A writer whom I rather like was
credited with commenting that my country
and his were unfortunately
At 17:53 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
just a quick (last) word: I take dictionaries to describe usage, not
prescribe it ...
True.
... thus they lag actual usage.
Hmm...
Brian Barker
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:43 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
I suggest that we agree to disagree ...
You can disagree without my needing to agree that you can. If agreeing to
disagree means that I accept that "virii" is as arguable as "viruses", then I
don't.
.
I am enjoying this language lesson ... A little distraction is good, when you
need it.
It is not the information I'm looking for, but it .. Helped.
Thank you.
M
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Jim McLaughlin wrote:
>A writer whom I rather like was credited with commenting that my count
At 13:43 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
I suggest that we agree to disagree ...
You can disagree without my needing to agree that you can. If
agreeing to disagree means that I accept that "virii" is as arguable
as "viruses", then I don't.
... each knowing that we are each separatel
At 17:19 06/08/2016 -0400, Julian Thomas wrote:
1 virus 2 viri 3 virii 4 viriv. .. 9 virix
Ho, ho! A good one!
Brian Barker
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At 17:10 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
aw, and I was going to ask about 'data'!
Philip Howard, who used to write on words for The [London] Times, had
a short chapter in one of his books entitled "Data is not what they
used to be"!
Brian Barker
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1 virus 2 viri 3 virii 4 viriv. .. 9 virix
From my i6.
Julian Thomas http:jt-mj.net
In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western NY State!
> On Aug 6, 2016, at 15:40, Felmon Davis wrote:
>
>
> so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs a plural
in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get ba
At 16:29 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
...how do you pluralize 'agenda'?
"Agenda" is already a plural in Latin, meaning "doings". As it needs
a plural in English, that again has to be a regular English plural: "agendas".
(Er, should we get back to software?!)
Brian Barker
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A writer whom I rather like was credited with commenting that my country
and his were unfortunately separated by a common language. I have always
thought that to be
a quite accurate observation.
I suggest that we agree to disagree and each withdraw from the field, each
knowing that we are each se
On 08/06/2016 04:04 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> The idea that all Latin nouns ending -us form plurals ending -i is
> specious.
>
You mean martini isn't the plural of martinus? ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_5h8CzRcI
Around 4:45
Wayne & Shuster were a famous Canadian comedy duo.
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On Sat, 6 Aug 2016, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
virii
Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second declension
noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural would be "viri", not
*"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural o
At 13:14 06/08/2016 -0700, Jim McLaughlin wrote:
virii
Sorry, but that's sillier than silly. If "virus" were a second
declension noun with a Latin plural (which it isn't), its plural
would be "viri", not *"virii". Latin "viri" is actually the plural of
"vir" and means "men". (I suppose some
virii
On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Doug wrote:
>
> I agree that I brought up the word "manuscript" since something like a
>> term-paper or a dissertation might frequently
>> be called by that term, and I thought that the derivation from the Latin
>>
At 15:40 06/08/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote:
so how do you guys pluralize 'virus'?
This guy says that the Latin "virus" means something like "slime" and
is a mass noun, having no plural: if you add slime to the slime you
already have, you get more slime, not *"two slimes".
In English, "vi
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016, Doug wrote:
I agree that I brought up the word "manuscript" since something like a
term-paper or a dissertation might frequently
be called by that term, and I thought that the derivation from the Latin
would be of interest. To those interested in
language, it might be noted
On 07/31/2016 11:58 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:38 31/07/2016 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 07/31/2016 06:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote:
I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line
spacing ...
Second, you should let
At 22:38 31/07/2016 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 07/31/2016 06:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote:
I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double
line spacing ...
Second, you should let your institution know that the world no
On 07/31/2016 06:23 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote:
I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line
spacing on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Rather
than hit the enter button twice each time especially as I
At 23:46 31/07/2016 +, Tina Noname wrote:
Simply look for line spacing and choose that which you want at the time.
Sorry to be blunt, but the original questioner was asking how to do
this! Now you are just telling him he should just do it - but not
how. And he wants it generally, not &qu
Simply look for line spacing and choose that which you want at the time. You
should find it under tools. Hope this helps somewhat.
Cheers,
Tina
"'God' brings us into each others lives for a reason and purpose that we may
never know until the end. But every interaction that we
At 07:36 01/08/2016 +1000, Richard Beeston wrote:
I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line
spacing on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages.
Rather than hit the enter button twice each time especially as I
could be writing long sentences and not wanting
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 07:36:33 +1000
"Richard Beeston" wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is there anyone who can help me
>
> I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line spacing
> on each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Ratber than hit the
&g
Hi
Is there anyone who can help me
I need to write a thesis and the requirement is to have double line spacing on
each page of a document of approximately 150 pages. Ratber than hit the enter
button twice each time especially as I could be writing long sentences and not
wanting to interrupt
On 15/11/14 at 9:02 AM, ofarr...@iol.ie (Rory O'Farrell) wrote:
[snip]
There is an informative article on OpenOffice line spacing at
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/now-revealed-secrets-line-spacing-
openofficeorg-writer
This may have been outmoded by later versions - I'm n
On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:54:22 +0100
mt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 14/11/14 at 9:55 PM, stan.spref...@tiscali.co.uk (Stan
> Reffin) wrote:
>
> >We have created a document in open office text with single line
> >spacing. When we paste this document in to a template crea
Hello,
On 14/11/14 at 9:55 PM, stan.spref...@tiscali.co.uk (Stan
Reffin) wrote:
We have created a document in open office text with single line
spacing. When we paste this document in to a template created
in word the spacing is 1.5 we have right clicked to high lite
single line but this
We have created a document in open office text with single line spacing. When
we paste this document in to a template created in word the spacing is 1.5 we
have right clicked to high lite single line but this changes nothing.Is it
possible to change the format when going from open office to
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