On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 02:46:07PM -0700, Gary Kline 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 rish 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? Maybe you can write a macro to do that, assuming you know the OpenOffice.org macro language. Otherwise, an opendocument file is actually a zip-file containing several files. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_technical_specification What you can do is unpack this zipfile, and use your favorite text processing language to replace the '*' with the appropriate XML tags in the 'content.xml' file. I don't know what the tags for italics are. So make a small example file and have a peek inside. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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