On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:32:02 +0000 Brian Barker <[email protected]> dijo:
>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. Actually, AutoCorrect is what I would use for all the issues, not just ' inc '. Typing will be faster because she won't need a notification of, e.g., a double space after a period, and then have to deal with the notification, if the 'period plus double space' is simply automatically corrected to 'period plus space.' For years I have always used AutoCorrect to add my personal typos as I make them and the spell checker flags them. Most of my common typos are now automatically corrected on the fly for me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
