On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote: > 141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 29/12/2014 11:03, Philip Webb wrote: >>> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. >>> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago >>> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . >>> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : >>> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . >>> I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, >>> but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. >>> Can anyone offer an explanation or some way to fix the problem ? >> Those links do not work. > > Thanks : corrected above (red face). Also Libreoffice 4.3.4.1 . >
At first glance I'd say you enabled "Smart quotes" in libreoffice sometime in the last 3 years, and it's now mangling apostrophes and dashes into something clever. Tools -> AutoCorrect Options -> Options -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
