Re: [libreoffice-users] Em-dash

On Mon, 29 Jul 2024 at 10:01, Chris J. <rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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.

Have you added the em dash into the Exceptions tab (tab in AutoCorrect options)?
Have you removed the 'Replace dashes' option on the Options tab (also
under AutoCorrect options)?

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