Hi Jonathon,
An Acorn platform application called !Impression.
It not only did most routine jobs but also was the
most user friendly writing program. One had access
to all the formatting codes in a plain text editor as well.
It had not only styles you could create but also
effects, which allowed individual action on words or
segments of an applied style. Many useful features
are available via Shift/n presses on the keyboard.
Type teh instead of the; put the cursor between the
e and h, press the relevant combination and the letters
transpose. Put the cursor in front of any word and
press CTRL/s and the first letter changes from lower
case to upper or vise versa. Highlight any group of
words or lines; press CTRL/r and spacing will evenly
reduce, CTRL/e and the reverse happens.
On top of that the Acorn O/S is very user friendly
as well.....
I'd better stop right now or crocodile tears will
be the next event :-)
Max.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathon Coombes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Re: Hanging indent: How to avoid
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 11:30 +1100, Max Haltermann wrote:
Hi Jean,
Thanks for your reply. The methode you described worked
fine on my 10 year old word processor but is tedious to use.
With some experimenting I found that by using
Shift/Enter a new line is entered, already lined up with the
text part of the first line with hanging indent, so making
it even easier to use.
Hi Max,
I am curious as to what your 10 year old word processor was/is
that you mention? It sounds like you are saying that using
styles is outdated? Well, styles are actually the way things
are being done now, not just in OpenOffice.org, but also in
other applications, web pages etc.
Regards
Jonathon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Hollis Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 7:44 AM
Subject: Re: Hanging indent: How to avoid
> Max Haltermann wrote,
>
>> Using Openoffice I often start with a date followed by 2-3
>> lines of text reporting about events past.
>> Formatted as hanging indent the date is as intended on the
>> extreme left of the page as desired. But when I type the
>> rest of the text I would like the text to line up with the
>> top line, NOT the hanging indent. How do I do that?
>
> Hello from another Aussie!
>
> When you say "the rest of the text", do you mean other
> paragraphs, not part of the paragraph with the hanging indent?
>
> If so, you need to use a different paragraph style for the
> paragraphs without the indent. You can either choose one of the
> existing paragraph styles (and modify it as needed) or create a
> new one. You can then set the style for the hanging-indent
> paragraphs to be "followed by" the style for the paragraphs
> without an indent; if you do that, then when you hit Enter at the
> end of the hanging-indent paragraph, the next paragraph will
> automatically have the other style. However, you will have to
> manually select the hanging-indent style for the paragraphs that
> should have them.
>
> If all of that sounds confusing, the chapter "Introduction to
> Styles" in the Writer Guide might help you; it explain this a lot
> better, and with examples. You can download a free PDF here:
>
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0206WG-IntroductionToStyles.pdf
>
> If I've misunderstood what you are trying to do, then it's
> possible that none of the above is relevant.
>
> Regards, Jean
> Jean Hollis Weber
>
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