Subject: Re: Superscript (run?) bug
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue May 30 2000 - 19:58:50 CDT
On Tue, 30 May 2000, James Montgomerie wrote:
>
> Load the document. Look at the lines which read "Normal 20, This is a red,
> superscripted sentence in all caps, bolded italic and word underlined in
> font size 20, normal 20" on the second page. The red underlined text at the
> start of the second line should be superscript, but it isn't, it's just
> small. The toolbar icons report do it as superscript, however. Highlight
> all the red underlined area (including the leading/trailing spaces) and
> press the superscript toolbar button twice. All is now correct. Press undo
> twice. All is still correct (i.e. it now appears to be showing the original
> state correctly). But it geets stranger still... Quit AbiWord, load it up
> again, and load the document again. Go to the line, but this time ony
> highlight the red text (i.e. not the leading/trailing underlines) and press
> the superscript button twice. Under my Linux CVS build, the text moves into
> a superscript position, but the underline doesn't (i.e. the text is hovering
> above the underline). Under Windows 0.7.8 the selection 'superscripts'
> itsself properly. Pressing undo twice leaves the selection in it's 'new'
> state.
>
I noticed something like this when developing the improved underlining
code but I couldn't reproduce it. I'll try to fix it since it might be my
fault. Thanks for the detailed bug report and document. The lack of
underlining is a good clue as to what is going on.
Cheers
Martin
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