Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 17:43:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: OOo question re my novel... Message-ID: <20090526004334.GA28827@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20090525234553.5cf60022@gluon.draftnet> References: <20090525214604.GA28439@thought.org> <20090525234553.5cf60022@gluon.draftnet>
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:45:53PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 25 May 2009 14:46:07 -0700 > Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > > guys, > > > > one thing i need to do before i submit my 600+ page tell-all "novel" > > is fihure out howto turn *this* into italics in Ooo-3.01. i don't > > think any regular publisher world risk this so it;s a roll-you-own. > > what i submit in doc [or odt] is what gets published. i can turn > > *this* into /this/, but still can't figure out how to have openoffice > > turn all the words i want italicized into actual italics. > > > > anybody know offhand? > > http://opendocumentfellowship.com/introduction/odf_vs_oxml_part_II has > an example of changing text styles in ODF. It looks like it should be a > search/replace to add the relevant tags. > i'm still lost. i've read the wiki page and don't see anything very instructive, and i've found your opendoc url and don't understadn mucg more. my source files, all 66 chapters, are in plain ascii with the asterisks indicating italics. once or twice i did something like % swriter ch35 and some or all of the *words* were boldface. nornally, OO just printed "*words*". i have a non-public program, atom, that turns acsii into markup. it would turn "Hi *there*" into <left quote>"Hi <i>there</i><rightquote> ... so if i can point OO at my html/xtml file and wind up with a correct *.odt file, that would work. gary > -- > Bruce Cran -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 4.91a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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