Re: Atlantis and Abi

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 10:07:14 EST

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    if i remember correctly Atlantis has a toolbar item for inserting symbols,
    how about if Abiword did the same?
    File an RFE, Grab a small screenshot of Atlantis put it on the web and
    add a link to the bug report.

    On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote:

    > >there might be some way to allow this but if you can suggest a keybinding
    > >using Ctrl and a letter we could probably add that instead. (unless we
    > >have run out of keys already
    >
    > I'm not exactly enamoured with Ctrl-Alt key combinations. My only point was
    > that there should be a better way to insert special symbols than selecting
    > them through a menu system -- that takes too many steps and slows down
    > typing. Abi already allows for the automatic replacement of "dumb" straight
    > quotes with "smart" curly quotes. It would be nice to have a similar way to
    > replace, say two short dashes with a single m-dash or a 1/2 with its
    > supersubsript alternative. I suppose this is getting on the fringes of
    > auto-correct, which can be maddening when its correcting things you don't
    > want corrected, but it seems we have already started down that road with
    > smartquotes.
    >
    >
    > >im all for software encouraging laziness, i use software in the hope that
    > >it is less work than pen and paper.
    >
    > Agreed, butt ewe don't want you're program replacing you're brain with
    > spelling that mae bee accurate, but wrong. All too often, I've seen word
    > processing documents with excess typos only because the words passed the
    > spell checker.
    >
    >
    > >but there are some very clever features like "lock styles" which actually
    > >encourage some very good habits. some programs are so clever that they
    > >educate users in the best way of doing things.
    >
    > What are lock styles?

    There is a feature to lock styles.
    Googlesearch:
    site:abisource.com "Lock Styles"

    I dont feel like explaining it, I've never used it.

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