On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Patrick Lam wrote:
>
> The fix that I committed adds a bit of PostScript code to the
> preamble so that ' is interpreted as /quotesingle, while -
> is interpreted as /hyphen. AbiWord counts on these being the case,
> while the encoding we instruct PostScript to use makes ' correspond
> to /quoteright and - correspond to /endash. Thus, when AbiWord has
> to do a width computation following a ' or a -, it gets the sum wrong.
> Now Abi and PS think that - and ' mean the same thing, so all calculations
> will work out.
>
This is great Pat! Thanks very much. Does gnome-print get this correct or
do we have to fool it too?
Cheers
Martin
