At 13:19 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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 formatting mode for showing, for instance, only double spaces but not single spaces?

Yes.

At 14:07 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
... I have the original copy as well and the author asked me to point out the mistakes. I truly doubt that he will learn from it, but if he's willing to try then I'm willing to help.

o  Go to Edit | Find & Replace... (or Ctrl+F).
o  Enter two spaces (or whatever) in the "Search for" box.
o  Press Find All.
o  Go to the Formatting toolbar and select a suitable Highlighting colour.
o  Repeat for other faults, using different colours.
o  Return document to author, preferably accompanied by sunglasses.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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