At 16:29 30/01/2011 -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
FYI: Using OO on Linux 10.04. [...]
1) She wants to see a warning mark if there is more than one space
between a punctuation mark and a following letter.
There are almost no circumstances in which a properly word-processed
document should have consecutive spaces. (I'd say none, but I won't
labour the point. Oh, and before anyone notices: this e-mail is not
word-processed but is going out as plain text, so that suggestion
doesn't apply!) One thing to do, then, is simply to use Find &
Replace to search for space-space and replace it with space. If you
suspect more than two consecutive spaces, either simply repeat the
search or else search for space-space-plus and replace with space -
this time ticking "Regular expressions", which you will find hidden
behind More Options.
But if you really want to see what you describe, use Find & Replace,
again with "Regular expressions" ticked. In Search for, enter something like
[.,:;?!] +
- that's a list of the punctuation marks you are concerned with,
enclosed in (square) brackets, followed by two spaces and a plus
sign. Now click Find All and all your occurrences will be selected
(and highlighted). You can close the Find & Replace window to help
you see what you have found.
2) She wants to be notified if there is a space before or after a hyphen.
With "Regular expressions" ticked, search for
- |- | -
- that's space hyphen space pipe hyphen space pipe space
hyphen. Again, click Find All.
3) She wants to treat common abbreviations such as 'Mr.', 'Mrs.',
'Ms.', 'Inc.' as known words in such a way as - for example - if she
types ' inc ' (delimited by whitespace) a warning mark would be
rendered and/or the Spell Checker would catch it.
Use AutoCorrect. Go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Replace, and
add the individual cases you require.
It is likely that some of these issues are already addressed by URLs
that you good people might submit.
That's a bit unlikely. Mind you, they might well be addressed by web
pages to which such URLs lead. ;^)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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