inch marks in open office
Hello-- I'm trying this 10.0 again, after a suggestion by Jim Cunning about the email problem I mentioned. (We'll see if it works.) However, this is in regard to Open Office. If I write something with double quotation marks, they come out like quotation marks, in other words, curly apostrophes, upside down and right side up, like they should. However, if I write a word like "don't" or "won't" etc, what I get is a straight stroke instead of a curly one. Can this be fixed, and if so, how? This is important to me, since I write for publication, and the text generally goes direct to the printer. (I am the editor of the publication--once it leaves my desk, it's finished!) (I am used to WordPerfect--Open Office is new to me, but it seems generally capable.) --doug
On 2006-08-24 02:33:20 -0400 Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
However, if I write a word like "don't" or "won't" etc, what I get is a straight stroke instead of a curly one. Can this be fixed, and if so, how?
Turning on "Replace Single Quotes" in "AutoCorrect"->"Custom Quotes" will replace contractions too. Charles -- Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. (Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello--
I'm trying this 10.0 again, after a suggestion by Jim Cunning about the email problem I mentioned. (We'll see if it works.)
However, this is in regard to Open Office. If I write something with double quotation marks, they come out like quotation marks, in other words, curly apostrophes, upside down and right side up, like they should. However, if I write a word like "don't" or "won't" etc, what I get is a straight stroke instead of a curly one. Can this be fixed, and if so, how?
I've just tried that and I don't get the results you do. Words like "don't" still show the proper quotes. Are you saying "don't" has different quotes than "want"? As for inches, you should be using to single quotes. Perhaps you're using a double quote, which messes things up.
On 2006-08-24 07:15:04 -0400 James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
I've just tried that and I don't get the results you do. Words like "don't" still show the proper quotes. Are you saying "don't" has different quotes than "want"?
I think the OP meant that the apostrophe is showing as a foot (not inch like he said) mark instead of a "closing single quote". This will be subsituted if the OP have "Replace Single Quote" turned on. Charles -- /* Fuck. The f-word is here so you can grep for it :-) */ linux-2.4.3/include/asm-mips/mmu_context.h
If you have smart quotes turned on in OpenOffice and want occasionally to use inch marks (like dumb quotes) you can simply type CTRL-Z immediately after typing the quotes. OpenOffice will undo its latest change, which was an automatic substitution of dumb quotes for smart ones. -- JDL
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