[ale] OpenOffice Expertise sought

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But he wanted a superscript *on top of* a subscript...I guess you'd see that in isotopic chemistry?


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From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> <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 at 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.
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> 
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> James P. Kinney III


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