[opensuse] OO diddles
In OO (hey, this is coming up in a font size I can read!) there are two problems that I'm running into. The first is that the single quote mark between letters in words like "don't" when typing in the equivalent of Times, comes out straight, not curly. The second is that when I want to type "12th," the "th" comes out small superscript, when I want it to come out just like I typed it here. There is a way in WordPerfect to defeat that, altho I don't remember what it is, and I have no familiarity with MSWord, which I know OO is trying to emulate. Maybe the quote mark problem could be solved with TTF, but you can't get that from M/S anymore, it seems. Is there a real, real simple way to put True Type Fonts on the system? (There is no XP on this machine, and it's not networked.) But I do own XP, altho it's not up at the moment--machine problems--so I have a license to use TTF. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug McGarrett wrote:
In OO (hey, this is coming up in a font size I can read!) there are two problems that I'm running into. The first is that the single quote mark between letters in words like "don't" when typing in the equivalent of Times, comes out straight, not curly.
AutoComplete->Options, change 1st to 1^st -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 December 2006 01:21, Doug McGarrett wrote:
In OO (hey, this is coming up in a font size I can read!) there are two problems that I'm running into. The first is that the single quote mark between letters in words like "don't" when typing in the equivalent of Times, comes out straight, not curly.
Tools -> AutoCorrect -> Custom Quotes A single quote (') will be converted to the quote you choose.
The second is that when I want to type "12th," the "th" comes out small superscript, when I want it to come out just like I typed it here. There is a way in WordPerfect to defeat that, altho I don't remember what it is, and I have no familiarity with MSWord, which I know OO is trying to emulate.
You can press ^Z (<Ctrl>-Z) to undo an Auto Correction like that. To turn off completely: Tools -> AutoCorrect -> Options -> "Replace 1st... with 1^st.".
Maybe the quote mark problem could be solved with TTF, but you can't get that from M/S anymore, it seems. Is there a real, real simple way to put True Type Fonts on the system? (There is no XP on this machine, and it's not networked.) But I do own XP, altho it's not up at the moment--machine problems--so I have a license to use TTF.
Right-click on a .ttf file, choose "Actions" -> "Install". Cheers, Leen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 15 Dec 2006, dmcgarrett@optonline.net wrote:
In OO (hey, this is coming up in a font size I can read!) there are two problems that I'm running into. The first is that the single quote mark between letters in words like "don't" when typing in the equivalent of Times, comes out straight, not curly.
Make sure that replace single quotes is turned on in: Tools->Autocorrect->"Custum Quotes" Also, make sure that you have set up the subsitution characters.
The second is that when I want to type "12th," the "th" comes out small superscript, when I want it to come out just like I typed it here. There is a way in WordPerfect to defeat that, altho I don't remember what it is, and I have no familiarity with MSWord, which I know OO is trying to emulate.
Don't know why you want to do that since the superscript is typographical correct. However, you can turn that off in: Tools->AutoCorrect->Options
Maybe the quote mark problem could be solved with TTF, but you can't get that from M/S anymore, it seems. Is there a real, real simple way to put True Type Fonts on the system? (There is no XP on this machine, and it's not networked.) But I do own XP, altho it's not up at the moment--machine problems--so I have a license to use TTF.
If you have some ttf fonts, you can install them using the font installer in YaST. Charles -- Dprintk("oh dear, we are idle\n"); linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/ns83820.c
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