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141229 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 29/12/2014 14:16, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I want to revise the 1st page of a PDF on my Internet site. |
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>> The original was created by Libreoffice c 3 years ago |
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>> & cb found at http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/nt/mark-notes.pdf . |
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>> The revision I created today has mangled some of the punctuation : |
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>> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~purslow/test/mark-notes.pdf . |
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>> I used the same .odt file in both cases, with small revisions in the 2nd, |
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>> but few, if any, of them affecting the punctuation which has been damaged. |
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> I'd say you enabled "Smart quotes" in Libreoffice sometime since 2011 |
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> and it's now mangling apostrophes and dashes into something clever : |
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> try Tools -> AutoCorrect Options -> Options . |
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Thanks for the pointer. Wasn't it still Open Office back then ? |
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Perhaps when it changed to LibreOffice, default settings were altered. |
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There were basically 3 problems : (1) the elided dash was mangled, |
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so I told it not to elide & replaced all instances with '--' ; |
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(2) it was using some bizarre " ' ", which was also getting mangled, |
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so I manually (with some search/replace) replaced all instances |
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with something which avoided the symbol, while expanding abbreviations. |
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After some work, I believe I've found them all, |
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but will wait till tomorrow before uploading it to the I/net. |
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The problem isn't a simple general setting, so it mb a LO bug, |
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but I don't have the time to take it up there. |
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