Remove new lines from a text file
Posted: 2019-10-08 Filed under: office | Tags: line, sed, space, tr Leave a commentI want to copy some text from a PDF file into a word processor. Copying works, but the line breaks from the PDF formatting are also copied. This messes up the text and results in disconnected text with many rows. I decided to use the command line to fix this automatically. I searched a bit and it seems that there are two steps that have to be taken.
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Syntax highlighting
Posted: 2019-08-04 Filed under: office, system | Tags: highlight, html, libreoffice, openoffice, syntax, word, WPS Office, writer Leave a commentI’ve been writing a text document, where I want to paste an excerpt of a shell script. I want to put it in a frame as a separate “figure”, referred to in the text as “Box ##”. To make it clearer to the reader, I want to have the appropriate syntax highlighting. How to do it?
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Cropping an image in Inkscape
Posted: 2019-07-19 Filed under: drawing | Tags: clip, crop, inkscape 2 CommentsLately, I’ve been processing a lot of imaging data in Inkscape. This included arranging imported pictures, setting their size, proportions and more. I needed an easy way to crop images that have been already imported in Inkscape. Usually, I would just make sure that everything is in the correct size before importing. Well, pedantic as this might be, it is time consuming.
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Break a line in Inkscape
Posted: 2018-03-31 Filed under: academic, drawing, misc | Tags: break, Figtree, inkscape, line, SeaView 1 CommentI have a solid line in Inkscape and I want to insert a line break, say, in the middle. The reason is that I had a relatively complex figure generated as SVG, where I need to colour some lines in half.
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WPS Office dictionary
Posted: 2017-10-15 Filed under: office | Tags: dictionary, en_GB, spellcheck, WPS Office 2 CommentsI have been using WPS Office for quite some time now, and I am really not looking back. The default spellcheck that comes with the office is American English (en_US). I wanted to add a spell check in Writer for British English, since this is what I normally use for documents.
NOTE (27 May 2023): check this much more recent post of mine, as well as the ready to use dictionaries at GitHub.
NOTE (03 April 2021): Please, check this newer post for updated howto for WPS Office 11.*!
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