[From nobody Tue Aug 26 16:32:03 2008 From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney@gmail.com> To: ale@ale.org Subject: Re: [ale] OpenOffice Expertise sought Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:35:49 +0000 Content-Type: Multipart/mixed; boundary="NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_28951_1219782718_1" --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_28951_1219782718_1 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_5522_26516908.1219779316234" ------=_Part_5522_26516908.1219779316234 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <ctl>-p is suPerscript, <ctl>-s is subscript. google for portable openoffice thumbdrive It's been done but I can't recall where... On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:20 PM, tom <tfreeman@intel.digichem.net> wrote: > > I'm starting a new gig (Yeah!), and promptly ran into a challenge. I'm > using OpenOffice because in theory I can run that between the employer's > MS Word and my own linux systems, and I've run into two places of > ignorance. > > First - and probably more crucial for me right now - I need the ability to > put a superscript and subscript one over the other (Its chemisty in case > that helps). I haven't chased down how to do this as an inline graphic or > math formula yet, but I'd really like to be able to just type it straight > off as text. Ideas?? Clues? Tossed Bricks? > > Second - I'd like to install OpenOffice.org to a thumb drive such that I > can use it on one of several XP and Vista machines available to me at > work. This might not work if the IT people have properly locked up the > machines, but I figure I might as well find out how to do it. (They have > locked up the network so I cann't ssh home and convert stuff to a word > format there. Clever bastards, but they have students to deal with.) > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > Ale mailing list > Ale@ale.org > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale > -- -- James P. Kinney III ------=_Part_5522_26516908.1219779316234 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div dir="ltr">&lt;ctl&gt;-p is suPerscript, &lt;ctl&gt;-s is subscript.<br><br>google for portable openoffice thumbdrive<br>It&#39;s been done but I can&#39;t recall where...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:20 PM, tom <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> I&#39;m starting a new gig (Yeah!), and promptly ran into a challenge. I&#39;m<br> using OpenOffice because in theory I can run that between the employer&#39;s<br> MS Word and my own linux systems, and I&#39;ve run into two places of<br> ignorance.<br> <br> First - and probably more crucial for me right now - I need the ability to<br> put a superscript and subscript one over the other (Its chemisty in case<br> that helps). I haven&#39;t chased down how to do this as an inline graphic or<br> math formula yet, but I&#39;d really like to be able to just type it straight<br> off as text. Ideas?? Clues? Tossed Bricks?<br> <br> Second - I&#39;d like to install OpenOffice.org to a thumb drive such that I<br> can use it on one of several XP and Vista machines available to me at<br> work. This might not work if the IT people have properly locked up the<br> machines, but I figure I might as well find out how to do it. (They have<br> locked up the network so I cann&#39;t ssh home and convert stuff to a word<br> format there. Clever bastards, but they have students to deal with.)<br> <br> Thanks in advance.<br> _______________________________________________<br> Ale mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale" target="_blank">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III <br><br> </div> ------=_Part_5522_26516908.1219779316234-- --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_28951_1219782718_1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list Ale@ale.org http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale --NextPart_Webmail_9m3u9jl4l_28951_1219782718_1-- ]