On 01/03/2008, Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 21:35 29/02/2008 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >On 29/02/2008, Michael Adams wrote: > >>Try six or so hyphens followed by the enter key (no spaces). To > >>ensure spacing between lines tap enter again. Repeat these steps as > >>needed. Autoconvert converts the hyphens to a line unless you have > >>turned it off. > > > >Very, very nice, Michael! Thanks! I knew _just_knew_ that there had > >to be a smart way of doing this, surely a dev sometime has needed > >ruled lines. From where did you learn that? I'd love to find the > >resource that lists tricks like that. > > > This technique is just a quick way of setting a bottom border for the > paragraph that you have just completed - an empty paragraph in your > case. In fact, if you need a number of lines ruled, it is actually a > *slowish* way of doing it. A faster way is either: > o first pressing Enter a number of times, selecting the area, and > then setting the border property for all the paragraphs in one go, or > o using the above technique once but then entering new empty > paragraphs *before* the bordered one you have produced. Doing it > this way means that each new paragraph inherits the border property > you have set, saving your repeating all those hyphens. > > Where is this explained? It's all in the help text at "drawing lines > in text". ;^) You need only three characters, in fact (not six), > and you can obtain six different styles of border with this > technique, using three copies of any one of hyphen, underscore, > equals sign, asterisk, swung dash, or hash mark. > > > I trust this helps.
Thanks, Brian, it does help. I've gone throught the documentation a few times, but I find it very overwhelming. Now I usually google what I need, and if that doesn't turn up anything, I turn to the list. That said, I find the documentation on OpenOffice to be the best documentation of any open source software that I use (all my software). Firefox and Thunderbird have decent documentation at mozillazine and are both very intuitive, but most FOSS software at OOo's complexity level seems to have incomplete documentation that is often years out of date. I've tried working on the KDE documentation, but gave up. So I cannot complain about the lack of documentation in other FOSS software (I know it's up to me to fix it, that's what FOSS is all about), but I can commend the OOo documentation team for a job thoroughly done. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
