*Damn* it. Help?
Apr. 21st, 2005 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanOK, now I'm really, really frustrated, too frustrated to ask for help in blank fricking verse. I beg for your help.
I need Microsoft Word to be able to print "square double brackets": but not just "[[" and "]]", but the slightly-overlapping version that you can see in this image:
I have been using the {advance} field, which moves the following text a number of specified points, to move the second bracket back until it overlaps the first. The major disadvantages of this approach are: first, changing the font size creates a corresponding change in the relative location of the brackets, and second, Word seems to treat the {advance} field as a space for the purposes of (a) respacing justified text and (b) line breaks. As a result of the second, a line where the spacing is sufficiently wide causes the overlapping brackets to appear as two brackets separated by a space (minus the two points the second bracket has been moved back). Though--and this is the part at which I got immensely frustrated--when I copied the paragraph in which that happened into a new document, it got it right, treating the field not as a space, but as part of the word, so that '[{advance}[text]{advance}]' was kept close together as a single word, and not as if it were '[{advance} [text] {advance}]'. Again, the exact same text, copied from one document to another, and I can't find any particular font or paragraph setting by which they differ.
I hope that made sense. At any rate, I'm now in need of a way to either create the double brackets without the {advance} field, or to make the {advance} field behave properly. Please, please help.
I may find myself writing megamacros to convert my entire Word file into a LaTeX file, after all.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
antihip seems to have had so much fun doing so...
I need Microsoft Word to be able to print "square double brackets": but not just "[[" and "]]", but the slightly-overlapping version that you can see in this image:
I have been using the {advance} field, which moves the following text a number of specified points, to move the second bracket back until it overlaps the first. The major disadvantages of this approach are: first, changing the font size creates a corresponding change in the relative location of the brackets, and second, Word seems to treat the {advance} field as a space for the purposes of (a) respacing justified text and (b) line breaks. As a result of the second, a line where the spacing is sufficiently wide causes the overlapping brackets to appear as two brackets separated by a space (minus the two points the second bracket has been moved back). Though--and this is the part at which I got immensely frustrated--when I copied the paragraph in which that happened into a new document, it got it right, treating the field not as a space, but as part of the word, so that '[{advance}[text]{advance}]' was kept close together as a single word, and not as if it were '[{advance} [text] {advance}]'. Again, the exact same text, copied from one document to another, and I can't find any particular font or paragraph setting by which they differ.
I hope that made sense. At any rate, I'm now in need of a way to either create the double brackets without the {advance} field, or to make the {advance} field behave properly. Please, please help.
I may find myself writing megamacros to convert my entire Word file into a LaTeX file, after all.
antihip seems to have had so much fun doing so...