While on the Text Flow tab, you should also enable the defaults of 2 for both widows (lines in a paragraph that fall at the top of the page) and orphans (lines in a paragraph stranded at the bottom of the page).
Another useful option, this time on the Localized Options tab, are checkboxes for replacing single and double straight quotes (' and ") with rounded smart quotes (‘ and “), of the kind used in professional publishing.įigure 2: If you use hyphenation, the Text Flow tab for paragraph styles can help you use them more professionally.
This option automatically corrects the common habit of replacing two hypens with an en dash (see below for comments on whether you should use this feature). In addition to numerous time-saving options, the Option s tab has a checkbox to Replace d ashes (Figure 1). If you want to produce professional-looking documents in Writer, start with the options in Tools | Auto C orrect Options. With a few default settings and some care, Writer becomes more of a desktop publisher than a word processor, transforming your documents so your words are presented to maximum advantage. Although most users are unaware of the fact, Writer can format text almost as well as a professional print shop. However, the days of indicating italics by underlining – a relic of the limitation of typewriters – are long past. LibreOffice Writer does not default to advanced typography, probably because several decades of word processors has allowed a more relaxed standard for most documents.
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