From: Tomas Frydrych (tomas@frydrych.uklinux.net)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 16:52:17 EDT
> Or 3) Make the smart quotes stuff 'smarter' (Quark's smart quotes are
> smarter than Word's and AbiWord's), and implement a piece of smart
> quote selection UI. I know this sounds complicated, and it is
> (especially implementing it cross-platform), but this is the way to
> *really* solve the smart quote problem. Here's my suggesion: When the
> user inputs " or ', it's converted by the really smart smart quotes
> system, and a two-column character selection box is displayed below
> the character, containing various quote characters (and apostrophs,
> ditto marks, &c.) (with the ones used in the chosen language at the
> top). The user can then chose the one she wants using the arrow keys,
> or the mouse. The quote character is then changed. If the user inputs
> a new character, the box disappears (and the character typed is
> inserted). This doesn't complicate typing, as you can just type as
> you've always done, and " are converted to smart quotes. But when you
> need to change the quote characters, this is easily accomplished with
> a few key presses.
I like that inteface very much, you should file that into bugzilla, so
that when someone gets to work on this the suggestion is readily at
hand.
Tomas
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