Subject: Re: I can't enable smartquotes in my AW for some reason
From: WJCarpenter (bill-abisource@carpenter.ORG)
Date: Wed Nov 15 2000 - 12:41:10 CST
wjc> For debugging SmartQuotes stuff, I recommend changing the
wjc> RemapGlyphsTable to characters you know you have. For example,
wjc> this setting uses single and double angle brackets:
wjc>
wjc> RemapGlyphsTable="‘<’>“«”»"
vlad> Since I use LANG=en, no non-english fonts are loaded, so I
vlad> should get the same result as others get. But I don't see any
vlad> substitution of plain quotes with nice quotes at all.
Sorry for the confusion. I should have been more explicit. With
LOCALE=en and the default fonts shipped with AbiWord on Unix, you get
deceptive results about SmartQuotes. Those fonts don't have the
appropriate glyphs for SmartQuotes, so RemapGlyphs maps them back to
the straight quote versions. That's why I recommend a custom setting
for RemapGlyphsTable on Unix (and other platforms if there is any
doubt) when debugging SmartQuote-related stuff.
vlad> I've attached a trace log of session in which I typed "Abccd"
vlad> <CR> and smartquotes were not engaged (though they are enabled
vlad> obviously). Could anybody see and tell whether it's OK? Also,
vlad> could anyone for whom smartquotes work attach the log of the
vlad> same session with their AW where smartquotes really work?
From the debug output, it looks like the right stuff is happening, at
least in the SmartQuotes engine. Here are some comments on selected
lines:
Reading the preferences file values:
DEBUG: DEFAULT RemapGlyphsMasterSwitch |1|1|
DEBUG: DEFAULT RemapGlyphsNoMatterWhat |0|0|
DEBUG: DEFAULT RemapGlyphsDefault |°|°|
DEBUG: DEFAULT RemapGlyphsTable |‘`’'“"”"|‘`’'“"”"|
DEBUG: DEFAULT SmartQuotesEnable |1|1|
The following is from the RemapGlyphs code showing the internal table
it uses. It matches the stuff from the RemapGlyphsTable preference
item above:
DEBUG: GR_Graphics::remapGlyph() refreshing cached values
DEBUG: RemapGlyphsTable[0] 0x2018 -> 0x0060
DEBUG: RemapGlyphsTable[1] 0x2019 -> 0x0027
DEBUG: RemapGlyphsTable[2] 0x201c -> 0x0022
DEBUG: RemapGlyphsTable[3] 0x201d -> 0x0022
Here is where you typed the double quote:
DEBUG: fl_BlockLayout::doclistener_insertSpan(), len=1, c=|"|
Here is where the SmartQuote engine considers the double quote:
DEBUG: FL_DocLayout::considerSmartQuoteCandidateAt(8406b30, 0) |"|
Here is says it decided to replace it with a U+201c, a SmartQuote glyph:
DEBUG: before 6, after 11, replace 201c
So, the right stuff is happening in the SmartQuote engine.
Undoubtedly, the RemapGlyphs stuff is mapping it back to straight
quotes, but I don't see that in the debug log (I don't recall if
RemapGlyphs still has its UT_DEBUGMSG stuff enabled).
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