Many thanks to those who kindly answered my question. A publisher wanted some parts of the text to be "hard spaced", i.e. to have spaces among characters, as in "s-o-m-e--s-p-a-ce", where '-' represents a space. They did not want expanded spaces obtained with a character style. It is horrible, I know, but I noticed that even large publishing houses use sometimes very old fashioned systems. I solved in this way: 1. prepared a character style, called it 'myspace', and marked manually all the parts that were to be "hard spaced". 2. exported as XHTML 3. wrote a script that adds spaces in the areas of text where 'myspace' is active. 4. imported the XHTML file and saved under another name.
Primitive, but effective. I also would like to add that, even if I normally use LaTeX for writing, I find OpenOffice an extremely powerful tool and, thanks to this list, I'm learning a lot. Thanks again, guido, italy -- Guido Milanese - Professor of Latin Language and Literature The Catholic University, Milan and Brescia, Italy http://docenti.unicatt.it/milanese_guido http://www.arsantiqua.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
