to nothing
at all beyond that if you do something to a computer, something will happen.
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'Your art then,' said Vertue, 'seems to teach men that the best way of being
happy is to enjoy unbroken good fortune in every respect. They would not all
find the advice helpful.'
-- C. S
saying Eh? in Maine. These things aren't always as hard
and fast as people wish them to be.
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The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue.
-- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude
On Dec 22, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Peter Hyde wrote:
O and by the way from a Christian,
Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
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Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light.
-- Tom Stoppard. Night and Day
editor. Notepad is,
however, useful for BAT files and CONFIG.SYS.
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The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything
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be given an obvious option to opt out.
For the record, I would also like to suggest that an option to format date
as YY/MM/DD or /MM/DD would be valuable. (It sorts simply.)
Format it the way you want in the table/spreadsheet, and save-to-CSV will use
it.
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Read the remains
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Mike Scott wrote:
On 15/07/2010 19:41, sharon wrote:
How do you make a kill file? I sure want one!
SRB
Depends on your mail client. Look for kill-file or filters either in its help
file, or use google.
It's Rules, on Mac OS X Mail.
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can say is that it doesn't look that way on my Apple
running Snow Leopard.
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The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue.
-- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude
coloured paper!),
Not to mention that most printers can't do full bleed.
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John W Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford
, so writing in any
language but Objective-C (or Objective-C++) is swimming upstream.
There are at least two interpreted languages that are supported for certain
purposes; they are included in the system: JavaScript and SQL.
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The bright critics assembled in this volume
is too large for the iPad, which does not
have file-based virtual memory.
I think it would be strategically wiser for someone to design an iPad
application from scratch that uses OpenDocument for file storage.
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You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together
pretty much a proper subset of Mac OS X when it comes to things
like strings and encoding, date and time handling, localization, and file and
memory management. At the GUI level, Mac OS X and iPhone OS are not compatible,
but they are generally analogous.
--
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also charging, also with minimum orders, for what they call Oracle
Open Office.
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Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in your heart that you
and the people are one, human beings all
, if that is meaningful, badged near the bottom with TXT
PDF, etc., if the operating system knows how to do it. Otherwise, it seems to
show an icon from the default application. There is /some/ differentiation
possible; ODF files show modified OOo icons depending on type: test,
spreadsheet, etc..
--
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were the size of a VW bus.
You can use the point of a steak knife to turn a Philips-head screw if you
insist on it, but it's bad for the knife and bad for the screw, and is likely
to end in tears.
--
John W Kennedy
The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord
-Customize, set an available keystroke to invoke the macro.
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Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you
may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates.
You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent
a recommendation). Some
programs, however, still support it. And some support ..., even though that
was never a standard.
--
John W Kennedy
Though a Rothschild you may be
In your own capacity,
As a Company you've come to utter sorrow--
But the Liquidators say,
'Never mind--you needn't pay
isn't made to be used without a real computer
to host it; without a host, it can't print, it can't make backups, and it can't
install new releases of its operating system.
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But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which
know there is someone out
there who has the answer.
It sounds to me as though, when you created it, you created a Table of Contents
instead of an Alphabetical Index.
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Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obeisance of others! Thus is bad
On Dec 29, 2009, at 7:49 AM, DrNoiZ wrote:
As I can recall there is no such language recognized in the whole world.
Take your hate-group bullshit and get the Hell out of here.
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Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you
may come to think
-facto standard across all word processors.
Where did Ctrl-E come from for selectiing all text? Perhaps you did
some key remapping at some time?
But note that he signs himself as being in Madrid, which might make a
difference.
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Having switched to a Mac in disgust
and Dunlap's André.
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The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war.
-- Charles Williams. Mount Badon
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the walking dead. And a version for the new operating system of
the Palm Pre is out of the question for technical reasons.
The best available solution is to use Documents To Go by DataViz,
which can read and write Microsoft's formats, which OpenOffice.org can
also do.
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The poor
or the style(s) you're using, is set to Language:
None.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich
have always objected to being governed at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday
On Oct 19, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
As far as i can tell, Open office has a program to open its
applications,
but all these applications are separate, as you can run them
directly, by
opening them in your file browser. you can open a Calc program, for
example,
from the writer
On Oct 19, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Douglas St.Clair wrote:
On Oct 19, 2008, at 5:48 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:
On Oct 19, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Matt Sturgeon wrote:
As far as i can tell, Open office has a program to open its
applications,
but all these applications are separate, as you can run them
interfaces? I don't seem to have any
problem with
merely installing what I need
If you compare installing everything to installing just what you
need, you will find that it actually makes very little difference.
Most of the program is installed no matter what you ask for.
--
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and
contractors.
--
John W Kennedy
Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like
That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not
because it humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it
is violent, and not because it is unjust.
-- G
.
Then, of course, you would have to search for apostrophes and left and
right single quotes in a similar process.
Version 3's Regular Expression support is better than Version 2's,
though it is still rather backward compared to the support that has
been around for yonks.
--
John W Kennedy
Explorer refuses to display XHTML, period. After all,
Microsoft has had only eight years to get around to doing that. It
will /tolerate/ XHTML, but only if it finds it inside an HTML document.
Other than that, with the information you've supplied, it's hard to
say more.
--
John W Kennedy
, the
damfool Microsoft firewall, which I had turned off, had turned itself on
again, without even notifying me, let alone asking my permission.
Sometimes I wish IBM still made mini-mainframes, so I could just cut
over everything to z/OS.
--
John W. Kennedy
Sweet, was Christ crucified to create
exchange document.
Exactly how is that disturbing?
The 24-hour clock is not a standard in civilian America, and is not
likely to be one in the foreseeable future.
--
John W. Kennedy
The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war.
-- Charles
.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
For the present, at least, the 24-hour clock is simply not on the tapis
in the US, outside of the military. And personal interpretation is not
at stake here; the problem appears to be a flat-out bug in OOo's
Excel-import code.
--
John W. Kennedy
about a Universal Translator, an Automatic Car
Driver (with full government certification), and a universal solution to
the n-body problem?
--
John W. Kennedy
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of
ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
-- Garson Kanin. Born
, was in 2002, but a fixpack was
released as recently as 2006. IBM has announced, however, that they will
not support it on Vista (though it is believed to work).
--
John W. Kennedy
You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing the works
Office does it.
This is called disposing of your garbage by tossing it over your
neighbor's fence.
--
John W. Kennedy
There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump
of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that
because the rich man gets ice
car manufacturing in
the 1950's: there's never any real improvement, just rearrangement of
chrome, and bigger and bigger tail fins.
--
John W. Kennedy
Compact is becoming contract,
Man only earns and pays.
-- Charles Williams. Bors to Elayne: On the King's Coins
.
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Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical
feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite.
-- David Misch: She-Spies, While You Were Out
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and Spacing. It could
be improved (the options are not explained, and there is no feedback as
to how much leading is the result of specifying Single, Double,
etc.), but it's there.
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There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump
of a world of ours. I suppose
it, such as
Perl and Java. OpenOffice.org cannot, and I don't know offhand of any
other spreadsheet that can.
--
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Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated!
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html
Robert Derman wrote:
It is a little known fact that German almost
became the official national language of the United States.
No. URL:http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.htm
--
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You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive
don't know my way around .NET at all.
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The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue.
-- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude
* TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org
, there will be no improvements to HTML,
because Microsoft doesn't wish there to be any. That's why progress
stopped dead seven years ago.
--
John W. Kennedy
...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why
it was her.
-- Alias
* TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org
Robert Funnell wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, John W. Kennedy wrote:
... HTML doesn't even accomodate some of the most basic elements of
formatting, like first line indent!
Yes it does. See, for example,
URL:http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Amelia%20%282%29.html.
In this example, it's
as
unsportive or even betrayal.
And blatantly illegal, in the case of their OEM contracts.
A pity the American government doesn't have a Justice Department anymore.
--
John W. Kennedy
If Bill Gates believes in intelligent design, why can't he apply it to
Windows?
* TagZilla 0.066 * http
stand corrected, bow my head towards all Hungarians, and shall dig
myself deeper in to Oo in just about a few moments. What a relief!
indeed! Thx again!
By an amusing coincidence, as I read this thread, I am listening to a CD
of Emmerich Kálmán's last operetta.
--
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Komm' mit nach
Metin Akbil wrote:
Saturday, December 2, 2006, 3:37:04 AM, you wrote:
Metin Akbil wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the program as it stands. The choices are
Turkish Lira [in the 'Kurdish(Turkey)' locale] and Turkish Lira [in
the 'Turkish' locale].
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The problem
Metin Akbil wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the program as it stands. The choices are
Turkish Lira [in the 'Kurdish(Turkey)' locale] and Turkish Lira [in
the 'Turkish' locale].
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The problem is with the Kurdish (Turkey) locale. Please check
official sources, such a locale
? There is no restriction on page sizes, except those imposed by your
printer.
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The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue.
-- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude
Francisco Saldana wrote:
Has the openoffice web team considered using bittorrent to deliver
openoffice? It could help offset bandwith usage.
Bittorrent delivery of OOo has been available for at least the last two
releases. It's right there with the other downloads.
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the codepage of document
Tools-Options-Load/Save-HTML Compatibility
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The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue.
-- Charles Williams. Taliessin through Logres: Prelude
Peter Kupfer wrote:
Hello --
I thought TB had an option where it would strip all text below two
dashes (like the two above my signature) when you replied. Does anyone
else remember this or know how to enable it?
Two hyphens and a space, which your latest message correctly has.
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OS 9.2.2 ??
Not EVERYBODY is using Mac OSX yet
It's not practically possible. MacOS 9 simply doesn't have the necessary
features to support OOo.
--
John W. Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel
work on MacOS 9 does not
mean that a far more recent program can. OOo requires an operating
system with approximately the same facilities as Unix, and MacOS 9 is
not such a system. OS/2, like MacOS X, is.
--
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But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves
Chad Smith wrote:
On 3/8/06, John W. Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This simply isn't true. The fact that a good many older programs, of the
same vintage as Windows 2 or Windows 3, can work on MacOS 9 does not
mean that a far more recent program can. OOo requires an operating
system
daily watch on my
weight while undergoing radiation therapy.
--
John W. Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford
diplomat here, I see no point in
continuing this subject. The Second Balkan War ended 93 years ago.
--
John W. Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement
for other Commonwealth nations.
If, on the other hand, your system is set up for US English, this is normal.
--
John W. Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement
(such as Final Draft) from
specialized firms, and I suspect it would be the same for FOSS.
--
John W. Kennedy
But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford
167,999,781 test2.xml
12/05/2005 11:09 PM28,641,918 test2.zip
Clearly, the size of the tagname is fairly unimportant.
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But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake
Andrew Brown wrote:
John W. Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:4393C60B.4090405
@attglobal.net:
Rubbish. Microsoft is on top because Bill Gates was a trust fund baby,
and because he and his gang use the methods of organized crime. Nice
website you got here. It would be a shame
.
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But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford
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of the antitrust laws.
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But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake.
-- Charles Williams. Judgement at Chelmsford
.
Someday we'll get a Justice Department that has the balls to prosecute
Microsoft under RICO.
--
John W. Kennedy
Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That.
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because
it humiliates. You may come to think
, at least, it is conventional
to present non-English words from languages that use the Roman alphabet
in italic type, or vice-versa, if the containing English passage is
already italicized.)
--
John W. Kennedy
The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a
Marcus Aurelius
definition is, frankly, nothing short of disgusting. We
had that out in 1945-49.
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Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light.
-- Tom Stoppard. Night and Day
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Has anyone encountered this problem?
Your document is probably set up in no language. Words in no language
cannot be spell-checked.
The language is set in the same dialog that sets the font.
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Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obeisance
of Seamonkey.
--
John W. Kennedy
Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in your heart
that you and the people are one, human beings all, and good government
shall arise of its own accord! Such is the path
Bernard wrote:
I note a similar issue that 2.0beta always reverts to A4.
Not in my experience.
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(This is what is severely missing with the OpenDoc (OOo2) standard.)
OpenDocument. OpenDoc is the name of something else.
And there are at least two implementations.
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always objected to being governed
has been done.
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it was her.
-- Alias
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of whether this outrageous grouping was arranged because of
some politics or ignorance, lumping of all those dissimilar and
unrelated – historically or linguistically, is unjustified and
The people actually doing the work seem to disagree with you on this point.
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You can, if you wish
ira wrote:
hello.
is it possible to download just writer and not the entire suite?
thanks.
About 90% of the OOo program is used by Writer /and/ by Calc, /and/ by
Draw, etc.,, so it's not worth the extra complexity.
--
John W. Kennedy
Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir
promising is the Cobalt-on-Linux
version that PalmSource is said to be developing.
At present, the best thing to do is to use the Documents to Go package
and save your OOo files in Microsoft Word or Excel format.
--
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The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show
as a
template, which will include all the styles.
B) In 1.9.104, at least,
Tools-Customize-Keyboard-Functions(Category)-Styles-(whatever)
--
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The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a
Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear that ultimate power inevitably
ways, but the
author clearly got his legal education entirely out of comic books.
Actually, I take that back. I've never seen a comic book that didn't
comprehend the difference between a crime and a tort.
--
John W. Kennedy
...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why
adrian Greeman wrote:
Ah!! An AMERICAN dictionary. That would explain the misuse of the
English language.
Not in Collins ENGLISH dictionary is it a verb.
Collins makes (or used to make) some very nice pocket dictionaries.
Obsolete as a verb is in the OED.
--
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Only an idiot
woman is beautiful.
Le katmu ga prano janto. The cat hunts, running (lit., runningly hunts).
I understand that Chinese is much the same.
--
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...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why
it was her.
-- Alias
obsolete.
--The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
--
John W. Kennedy
Compact is becoming contract,
Man only earns and pays.
-- Charles Williams. Bors to Elayne
.
Sometimes a pending is just a pending.
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Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light.
-- Tom Stoppard. Night and Day
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Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
John W. Kennedy a crit :
Gary Edwards wrote:
And what do they do with OpenDocument? They mark it acceptable as an
open standard pending ratification by OASIS.
Why is OpenDocument the only file format in the Commonwealth's list
that requires ratification by an Open
(or might not) be another manifestation of Issue 45472.
--
John W. Kennedy
I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of
ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.
-- Garson Kanin. Born Yesterday
-- interchangeable elements such as on the IBM Selectric,
or sometimes replaceable clip-on slugs on one or two typebars, such as I
had on my old Sears electric.
--
John W. Kennedy
Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical
feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do
not break character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document
full of Mr. Sh and the like (actually, that's
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple do not
break character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document full of
Mr. Sh and the like (actually, that's two em dashes), and I can
find absolutely
if it happens to
hit the end of a line. All I can do is manually pad out the line with
extra spaces until the whole thing falls off onto the next line -- but
if I should need to alter the margins, or make a correction to the text,
I have to do the whole thing over again.
--
John W. Kennedy
I want
different from the accepted
standard:
It would be nearer the mark to say that whenever IBM got something
working right, the powers-that-be would then come up with an
after-the-fact standard that was completely different.
--
John W. Kennedy
A proud member of the reality-based community
don't know of any case of crashing the
system. For /most/ purposes, I already like 2.0 better.
Also Can I keep version 1.1.4 alongside v2.0 beta? MS Office never let
you do this.
Yes. No problem at all.
--
John W. Kennedy
The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show
, for as long as I can remember.
Not so. Although it will not present file.foo as a choice if you
select the Text documents option, you can still type file.foo into
the file name.
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ignorant people is too
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