2008/8/6 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/8/6 Francesco Abeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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. > > > > Thanks, Francesco, actually I did do just that. But I have the > original copy as well and the author asked me to point out the > mistakes. I truely doubt that he will learn from it, but if he's > willing to try then I'm willing to help. > > In another copy use Regular Expressions to change each type of mistake to, for example "itself followed by !!!!" So change bad double spaces to " !!!!", doubled apostrophes to ''!!!! and so on. Then he can highlight all the occurrences of !!!!
I can't find a way to change text to, say, red background or blue font or bold & italic. That would be nice ... -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
