From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Thu Mar 21 2002 - 10:07:14 EST
[not cc'ing the developers]
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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