Ideas to pass onto Open Office?

120519 Truelaw Outlaw Junction Open Office Ideas-Drop Edition

A few ideas to pass onto Open office

These kinds of ideas hit me often, as I scribe e-ssays to post on this blog.  This time I managed to write a little bit about it, for the designers of the absolutely fabulous Open Office software to ponder.....

How about a key combination for “acronyms” (this morning, I'm not even sure if "acronym" is the right word for abbreviations using the first letters of each word?), where, in an essay or such, the 1^st time you have the need to write a term, which is also known by an acronym, you can 1^st type in the acronym, then use a key combo, like “Control-Alt-A”, or one of the “F” keys, then type the full words, then press "ENTER" I s'pose, so that as you write, when the term, say, IMF – International Monetary Fund is to be written, typing-in the acronym automatically prompts the software to type the full wordage?

Perhaps the full spelled words could automatically be slotted in between brackets (International Monetary Fund) when the arconym and a key-combo are typed?

Other structures should be possible, such as, by typing the acronym, the whole spelling pops-up, to replace the acronym. 

Or, well..., numerous other ideas are out there..., aye?!

Too hard?

I'm just a writer...  (But in my next life, I'm GUNNA learn computer code, or whatever it's called!  Yes-I-AM! Yes-I-AM!)

I write mainly on politics, but I can see a similar, but distinct need or advantage for such a keystroke option, in say, chemistry, or physics, economics, football, or any of the sciences, (FOOTBALL's A SCIENCE! Sorta...) such that one might either have a list available, for each science or specialty.

Obviously, setting up such lists is too much to ask of the Open Office programmers, but having the ability there for the user to construct their own specialist-lists, which they can activate depending upon which field they are writing in/about, should be easy, yes-no?

Of course, being such a dill, there's probably something exactly like this already, already?

And, while I'm addressing Open Office, I do a lot of drawing and designing on the OO DRAW software, which blows me out, each time I use it.

One idea I had, which I developed for myself, is to make "measuring tools" like rulers, and a 360 degree protractor, for when you're designing something.  I drew the ruler, then turned it into a bitmap so it would remain the same on any angle.

The need for a constant length ruler can be avoided to some extent by drawing to the preferred measurement scale in the program.  But drawing a line on an angle to a required length, is beyond my knowledge of the software.  But, once more, there might well be a way in the software to know instantly the length of, say, a 67 degree line, or such.

I know the geometry process of knowing the lengths of the two right angle sides to calculate the length of an hypotenuse, but that takes time.

Also, is there some method to click on something to establish the angle of a line, in degrees?

Again, I know an equation exists by using the lengths, etc, but it's long gone from my memory now.

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