Subject: RE: More on Smart Quotes...
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Wed Jul 26 2000 - 01:28:36 CDT
lr> In terms of doing dynamic (on the fly) smart quote replacement,
lr> the original implementation of such was one on the Mac in the mid
lr> 1980's (85/86) by a good friend of mine named Dave Dunham.
Interesting to hear this history. Thanks for passing it along. I've
never heard of Acta and miniWRITER, but I don't know much about Mac
software.
dunham> This code may be used freely under the following conditions:
dunham> the author (David Dunham) receives credit in the manual, a
dunham> beta copy of the program with smart quotes implemented, and a
dunham> final copy of the program with smart quotes implemented.
I don't think we'll be able to use any of the 40 lines of code of his
for Abiword, so I guess he'll have to pay full price for the beta and
final copies if he wants them. :-)
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