Re: looking for a commit on recent smart quote patch


Subject: Re: looking for a commit on recent smart quote patch
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 01:00:29 CDT


I would have commited this but CVS is doing weird things to me today.
Can someone else get this in please?

Thanks

Martin

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, WJCarpenter wrote:

> Friday evening, I submitted a patch for some fine-tuning of the smart
> quote stuff:
>
> <http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/August/0463.html>
>
> Could someone with commit privs look at the patch and, well, commit
> it? I wouldn't normally be concerned about a few days this way or
> that, but it would be good to have this patch in before 0.7.11 if
> that's still possible.
>
> In a nutshell, the problem being covered up, er, solved by this patch
> is that smart quote promotion wasn't being properly handled if the
> quote occurred directly after a forced line, column, or page break.
> To reproduce, type a line, hit RETURN to force a line break, and then
> type a word surrounded by quote marks. The open quote won't get
> promoted to curly. The patch fixes that.
> --
> bill@carpenter.ORG (WJCarpenter) PGP 0x91865119
> 38 95 1B 69 C9 C6 3D 25 73 46 32 04 69 D6 ED F3
>
>
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