Subject: Re: Bug 1691
abiword@linuxfreemail.com
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 23:05:11 CDT
Bug 1569 has a pretty detailed discussion of this, seems to get more complicated the more you look at it! After reading that, I begin to think "our way" really *is* better. Have UPPER CASE and want Title Case? Just click lowercase and then sentence case.
Cheers,
Tim
At Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:31:06 +0100 (BST) , =?iso-8859-1?q?Andrew=20Dunbar?= <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Dom Lachowicz <dominicl@seas.upenn.edu> wrote: >
>Quoting abiword@linuxfreemail.com:
>>
>> > I think bug 1691 should be re-opened. MS Word
>> handles the "Change Case"
>> > feature the right way IMO, but perhaps this needs
>> further discussion.
>>
>> No, this bug and those marked as duplicates should
>> not be reopened because our
>> behavior is consistent and correct for our
>> definition of these features.
>>
>> If you don't like our definitions (you seem to
>> prefer MSWord's), please open
>> *new* bugs with detailed descriptions of what you'd
>> like to see happen.
>
>If we do indeed have our own definitions we need to
>put
>them somewhere. I was very confused when I tried the
>Title Case and Sentence case options. I challenge
>anybody to find a church secretary who was less
>confused than I was (:
>The problem of uppercased words within mixed case runs
>of text is one that needs thought though...
>
>Andrew Dunbar.
>
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