On 06/23/2013 12:08 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes
and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix all the
damned inch marks one by one by hand. WordPerfect can do that
automatically. Not only that, it can differentiate between quote
marks and real inch and foot designators. Let's see your OO/LO do that!
I am not sure what this is since I have never had any particular
difficulty dealing with these things.... though I am not sure how one
can understand that a particular single quote is an "inch mark" as
opposed to a non-curly double quote.
I think the reference to an "inch mark" is simply a way of identifying
your (typewriter-style) "non-curly" double quote.
But Mr McGarrett does have a point, I think. OpenOffice Writer will
replace typed single and double quotes with what it calls custom
quotes quite efficiently as you type. But if you have existing
straight quotes in a document (perhaps in an inherited document or in
text pasted in from elsewhere), there appears to be no easy way to
apply that intelligence after the event. You could replace a straight
quote with a curly one, but you'd have to select manually the
individual cases where you needed open and close quotes: you cannot at
this stage invoke Writer's ability to use its intelligence about
this. In some other word processors (dare I mention Microsoft Word if
I promise to wash my mouth out?), you can merely replace straight
quotes with straight quotes: replacement is treated the same way as
typing, the same intelligence is invoked, and curly quotes of the
appropriate handedness are substituted en masse.
Brian Barker
Oh, now I get it.... WP will auto-magically replace straight quotes with
curly quotes when you import a document. For most of what I do, that
would really mess things up for me. I did have one document, however,
where I desired that beahvior, so I wrote a macro to do it if I remember
correctly; would have been nice to have had a built-in command to do it
for me already.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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