[libreoffice-users] Em-dash

Hi.


Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

LibreOffice 24.2..4.2 (X86_64)


I want a rhythmic cadence in a sentence. It's a sex scene so you can see 
where the rhythmic part comes in. My problem is how to indicate this in 
dialogue of a sort. There is a bunch of punctuation that could be used 
here, everything from commas to ellipses. Too many  commas are likely to 
be ignored. Most of the rest seemed too long. I used the em-dash, the 
idea being a quick inhale between each word. If there's a better idea 
I'd really like to hear it.

Enter Autocorrect. This is supposed to swap out dash-dash for em-dash. 
It did but only if I applied it manually. Maybe I missed something about 
autocorrect.

The big problem that hit was that when I started replacing with 
em-dashes, the next four or five pages lost most their style formatting. 
The indents changed, the spacing went from 2 to 1.5. They only things 
that stayed the same were font and size. I had to go back and manually 
reapply my styles, paragraph, chapter, and section break.

Anyone have any idea what happened here?

Thank you. As always, useful help much appreciated.

Chris Johnson   rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com
Ex SysAdmin, now, writer 	/The longer you wait in line, the greater the 
likelihood you are in the wrong line.
/(The Queue Principle)

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