Logical Notation in OpenOffice 3.0
The recent version of Open Office makes it very easy for philosophers to insert logical notation into their papers.
It’s done through by adding special commands into the AutoCorrect Feature. This post will show you how to do that.
Suppose you want the existential quantifier to automatically replace ‘/e’ - Here’s what you do.
First: Insert the Special Character You Want an Auto Correct Shortcut For. In our case, the existential quantifier.
Second: Highlight the Character in Your Document. Go to Tools > AutoCorrect
Third: In the “Replace” field type in the text that you want the symbol to Automatically Replace. Click “New”. Click “OK”
Now, everytime I type ‘/e’ - It will be AutoCorrected with the Existential Quantifier. Pretty awesome.
(NOTE: I got this working in Ubuntu 9.04 using Open Office 3.0. After talking with Allen Stairs, it looks like it’s a bit trickier to get this working in Windows.)
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Many thanks, Andy, for posting this. Alas, as you noted, it seems not to work so well with Vista. Briefly, the font set is different, and in any case, highlighting an inserted symbol doesn’t put into into the ‘With’ box as it does with Ubuntu. If anyone knows a work-around (short of installing Ubuntu) it would be dandy to hear about it.
It works on a Mac - OS X 10.5.6, Oo 3.0.1.
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