Dotan Cohen ha scritto:
Is there a feature for showing multiple spaces, double single
apostrophes, and other 'bad' punctuation?
I have an 80-page thesis that I am reviewing. The author, while an
expert in the field of filtration, is a terrible writer. He sometimes
uses " double quotes and sometimes uses '' single quotes in pairs. In
many places there are two spaces between words. Is there a
formating mode for showing, for instance, only double spaces but not
single spaces? Maybe a way to highlight '' single quotes used in
pairs?
If it is important, this is a .doc file written in a late version of
MSO, and I am using OOo 2.4 on Ubuntu. I have upgraded to the full
OOo, not the crippled distro version.
Just a hint: you should use the Replace features with Regular
Expressions. They are somewhat difficult at first, but then allow you to
find and replace almost any kind of exact pattern and replace it.
In your case, they allow you easily to find "a letter followed by two
spaces followed by another letter" and replace the two space with one,
leaving the letters untouched.
Or find a ' followed by letters and spaces followed by another ' and
replace these with ".
As i said, this is just a hint. If you need more advice, post again and
i'll be glad to help.
--
Francesco
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