Re: [libreoffice-users] Can words in LibreOffice be auto-italicized?

At 08:28 20/12/2011 -0800, Nobody Tidwell wrote:
> Everyone in writing has to italicize certain names or titles over 
> and over again throughout their work. Is there an option to make 
> this happen automatically for particular words as you type? I 
> suspect it could be done through a macro, but I am a total novice in 
> that. I've looked at Options, but I haven't seen this. Am I missing something?

As has been suggested, one way is to prepare your document without 
italicisation, and then to use Find & Replace to italicise later.

At 11:51 20/12/2011 -0800, Nobody Tidwell wrote:
> Find & replace works well enough, but I'm always just a tad nervous 
> my parameters will allow the program to alter something I didn't 
> intend to. As in, I replace all instances of "and" with "&", and 
> then my text reads, "Joe sighted l& after four days. Upon reaching 
> the shore he wiggled his toes in the s&."  I am well capable of far 
> worse errors, I assure you.

To avoid this, use Replace instead of Replace All, and confirm each 
correction is appropriate.

An alternative scheme is to type a code for the "names or titles" 
instead of the items themselves, and then to replace this later.  If 
you include a character in the code that does not appear elsewhere in 
your document, you will be fairly safe from the sort of problems you 
describe.  If you need to italicise, for example, "The Origin of 
Species", enter something such as "#os" each time you need it and 
then use Find & Replace to convert this later to what you need.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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