[wplug] OpenOffice Question

[Gene Wilson]

One way to deal with this problem would be to print from OpenOffice to
a postscript file and then ftp the ps file to a unix machine on campus.
 Then you can just use 'lpr' to print from there. That way you don't
have to worry about proprietary file formats at all.  I use this method
to print at CMU from my Windows2000 laptop as I've never gotten around
to to figuring out how to print from windows to a campus printer (the
laptop is from work so I don't have a choice of OS).  

Gene Wilson

--- "Mark Allen Adams, Jr." <adamsma at washjeff.edu> wrote:
> 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?
> 
> -- 
> 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
> 
> 
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