LibreOffice version 4

[Tim]

On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 16:54 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> time for my two cents:  I do everything in vi simply because my
> fingers know it.  in my essays I indicate italics by *this*: ascii
> delimited by asterisks.  translating this to word-processor
> format--Openoffice-- was accomplished by an expression a regex guru
> described::
>  
>   Click at the beginning of the document then use Find & Replace.
>  
>    Check "Regular Expressions".
>    Search For: \*([^\*]*)\*
>    Replace With: $1
>    Select Format > Font > Italic for the Replace With box.
>    Click Replace All.
>  
> worked flawlessly for OOo; not so with libreoffice.  [[ and yeah, I
> tried several times. ]]

As I recall, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice already have a built-in
function to replace "seetext" style markup, which is asterisks around
bold text, you might be fighting with that.  The seetext style markup
for italics, was to put a slash either side.  I can't remember if it
supported that, at all.  And I'm on the wrong computer to try.

e.g. I am *bold* or /italics/.

Various mail clients will interpret those characters sequences, too.
Which can be a major pain when perusing source code snippets in mail.

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