Can't fight city hall I guess. Thanks for the investigation!
On Sun, May 24, 2020 at 8:37 PM Thomas Schneider <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Steven:
>
> > Getting it with this:
> > \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> > ...
>
> Thanks! I ran that through LaTeX and displayed it on macOS 10.15.4
> using Skim 1.5.9. Indeed, when I click on some numbers in the table,
> FaceTime pops up offering to "Click call to make this call"!
>
> I launched it with Acrobat Reader and didn't have the effect.
> (However, when I tried to get the version with 'About', Acrobat reader
> failed with 'not responding' beach ball When I reported the problem to
> Apple, I got the version is 20.009.20065. Maybe it's just an old
> version. Who needs it when we have the wonderful Skim? ;-)
>
> With Preview 11.0, the mouse becomes a pointer hand (as with the other
> two) but I get a tone when I click on a number.
>
> The preprint of our recent publication has a table on page 14:
>
> https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/papers/lattice/lattice.pdf
>
> The mouse pointer turns into a hand over those numbers, but does NOT
> pop up. Those numbers have decimals in them so don't look like phone
> numbers I suppose.
>
> minimizing your example even further:
>
> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{table}
> \centering
> \scriptsize
> \begin{tabular}{lrrrrr}
> \hline\hline
> &num.unique &missing.values &numzero &zero.or.missing
> &observed.nonzero\\
> & 276 & 16943 & 939 & 17882 & 373 \\
> \hline
> & 34 & 124.2 & 0 & 124.2 & 18131
> \\
> \hline
> \hline\hline
> \end{tabular}
> \caption{\small\it blah blah. }
> \label{tab:missing}
> \end{table}
> \end{document}
>
> The top line on the right shows up as phone numbers,
> but adding the '.2' apparently stopped that.
>
> If I create a file in the Terminal with a phone number-like set of
> digits and then highlight it, a right click provides options for:
>
> Call [the number] Using iPhone
> FaceTime
> FaceTime Audio
> Message [the number]
>
> If I highlight some text, those options are not shown.
>
> So apparently the macOS is looking for phone like things and will
> provide you with the option to call if it reognizes something ... As
> they say, it's a feature, not a bug!
>
> Ok, let's see if that's true.
>
> google:
> macOS phone number recognition
> https://www.google.com/search?&q=macOS+phone+number+recognition
>
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7630016
> Q: How do I disable phone number recognition on a mac
>
> > When I type numbers of 10 or more digits into Calendar events,
> > Notes, and I think some other places, they become a link that brings
> > up FaceTime whenever I click on them (e.g., to make a correction).
> > None of these are ever phone numbers. I have no use for and do not
> > want to use any applications that exhibit this behavior. How can I
> > disable it on my Mac, so no numbers are ever treated as phone
> > numbers, unless of course they are entered into a field that is
> > specifically defined as a phone number (e.g. in Contacts)?
> >
> > Posted on Aug 4, 2016 8:01 PM
>
> LOL!!! There you have it!!
>
> Rysz answered:
>
> > Aug 5, 2016 9:43 AM in response to Raptor
> >
> > I don't believe there is a way to turn this off, although there
> > might be a way via Terminal commands.
>
> Tom
>
> Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
> Senior Investigator
> National Institutes of Health
> National Cancer Institute
> Center for Cancer Research
> RNA Biology Laboratory
> Biological Information Theory Group
> Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
> [email protected]
> https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms
>
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