it took about an hour to fix all the accents and dashes. they were distorted in really strange ways - like one chinese character would replace ã (a-tilde) consistently for a page, then on the next page there'd be a different one.
eventually i cut-and-pasted sections from the RTF in the bibliography, which seemed to be the location of the syntax error. this was tedious but did save some retyping as the end was truncated. i have now saved the document as ODT. thanks dotan and keith for your help. aaron. so said [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 1.0K on Sun, Oct 29, 2006: > On 29/10/06, aaron brick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >thanks for checking that out. i was also able to open the file in abiword, > >and i'm sure the page numbering is fixable. however, all my smart quotes > >and > >em-dashes were mangled and now appear as the degree symbol. i'm now looking > >for a way to fix all these occurrences without retyping every single one. > >maybe there is some arrangement in OO.o of which i am not yet aware that > >will simplify restyling selections. > > > >thanks, > >aaron. > > > > Can't you just run a search and replace on the degree symbol, to > change it back to an em-dash. > > Also, it's a long shot, but try changing your system encoding to the > encoding used to create the document, then open it in abiword, OOo, or > Kword. Be sure to save it in UTF-8, however. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://essentialinux.com/ > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/distribution.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > \\ aaron brick \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\ http://www.lithic.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
