[wplug] OpenOffice Question

[Mark Allen Adams, Jr.]

I'm using OpenOffice to compose most, if not all, of my documents; however, as 
I am a poor college student without a printer, I often find myself converting 
my documents to a certain nameless proprietary document format, in order to 
make use of lab printers, which exist on a network with a certain nameless 
proprietary office suite.  Now, the problem I've been noticing is that 
OpenOffice's spell-checking feature operates somewhat differently with 
dashes, so that two words with a dash between them are counted as spelling 
errors, until a space is added before and/or after the dash, a convention 
which I have always thought was wrong.  My question, then, is this:  can the 
spell-checker in OpenOffice be configured to take words in the form "x—y" as 
spelled correctly; if so, how?

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Mark Allen Adams, Jr. (adamsma at washjeff.edu)
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety 
deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759