Er, I meant to send this to the group: sam th wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK, here's my attempt to summarize the various issues around smart quotes > and how they should be implemented in AbiWord. > Well, there seems to be a lot of groping around in the dark on various issues with AbiWord. How many among you use WordPerfect? I think it is by far a superior Word Processor to MS Word and something that should be used as a "guide" for how AbiWord should work. I'm not saying it should be a clone of WordPerfect, but I have plenty of anecdotal evidence form my job that WordPerfect "Does things right". For example, they have Tools | Spell Check... not Tools | Spelling... , while a very minor detail, I think it is obviously the more intuitive choice for running a spell check. As far as smart quotes prefernces go, they fold it in as a feature of AutoCorrect(MS probably does that too). And I think that makes sense as well, it's very much an on-the-fly change-as-you-type sort of thing. Obviously there is no AutoCorrect feature in AbiWord right now, so for now a simple Tools | Curly Quotes on/off option ought to be just fine. Regarding inch quotes(6"), and apostrophes, even WordPerfect is not perfect in that regard, you can check for spaces before the single quote which would usually indicate to make it curly, you can check for numbers before double quotes which would indicate the inch mark, but you won't get it right 100% of the time. I can't offer any advice on the technical aspects of implementing smart quotes though, sorry! Cheers, TimL AbiWord User Future Developer?
