[ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are destroying me

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Hi Walter

Thanks, calligrawords was the one I was looking for. :)

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM, William Walter Kinghorn <williamk at dut.ac.za
> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> "alternative Linux wordprocessors"
>
> in Ubuntu
>
> Abiword - efficient, featureful word processor with collaboration
>
> calligrawords - word processor for the Calligra Office Suite
>
> William
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> ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of ubuntupunk at gmail.com [
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> Sent: 23 April 2012 14:59
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are destroying
> me
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Frank Sokolic <sokolic at worldonline.co.za
> <mailto:sokolic at worldonline.co.za>> wrote:
>
> When this happens to me I press ctrl-z immediately after I enter press at
> the end a paragraph. This should undo the autoformatting of the paragraph.
> It's not an elegant solution, I know, but at least will allow you to keep
> the paragraphs from being autoformatted.
>
> Frank.
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Libre Office Auto Correct features are destroying
> me
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>
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mark Widdicombe <markwiddicombe at gmail.com
> <mailto:markwiddicombe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 23 April 2012 11:34, ubuntupunk at gmail.com<mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>
> <ubuntupunk at gmail.com<mailto:ubuntupunk at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry to bother with this issue, but the lack of user-friendliness in
> LibreOffice is killing me.
>
> Whenever I try to write up a document with numbering like so
>
> 1.1
>
> 1.2
>
> 1.3
>
>
> LO insists on autoformating the paragraphs incorrectly. There appears to
> be no way of turning off this feature in Tools > Options.
>
>
> More evidence of the "Dark Side' of Open Source
>
> D.
>
>
> Go to Tools-->Autocorrect Options-->Options, then uncheck 'Apply numbering
> - symbol'
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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> Autocorrect options is missing. This no more a feature in 3.4.4?
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> Okay, dark side has been conquered, was looking in Tools >> Options, now
> feature appears under Tools >> Autocorrect Options. Is there any way of
> making this persistent so I don't end up in a recursive universe, always
> going through this problem and having somebody point out that the feature
> is x y z?
>
> Also usually happens on a deadline
>
> BTW am downloading WP8 and looking for alternative Linux wordprocessors.
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