Hi all!
I'd like you to consider enabling by default single quotes substitution
("smart single quotes") in AutoFormat. OO.o already replaces straight
quotes with smart ones (i.e. “ ”, « » and the like) out of the box.
Straight apostrophes are kind of ugly in well-formatted documents, and
they are not the recommended Unicode char for that (see documentation
for U+2019 character).
The single quotes substitution works quite well in OO.o ATM, it handles
both the case where it's used as single quotation mark (‘expression’),
and that of strictly-speaking apostrophe (as in it’s). So I can see no
problem with enabling it. On the contrary, leaving it disabled makes
OO.o look inferior to other text processors, since MS Word (for a long
time) and Abiword (in the next version) include this feature. I for
example always need to check the box in Tools->AutoCorrection when I
install OO.o for users.
What do you think about that?
BTW, I've reported this some time ago as issue 100897:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100897
Cheers
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