Re: Fwd: Smart quotes patch - committed.

It is hard to argue with a German speaker who doesn't want to have
multiple styles.

However...
1) My biggest use of a word processor, at the moment, is writing a book.
2) I don't know about y'all, but when I switch languages, I don't
switch the language in Abiword, I just change the keyboard layout.
The only typing outside English I really do is Hebrew, and I don't
even know if a spell checker exists, since almost any combination of 3
letters is a word.

As I said, I'd like to tie the quote characters to the lang of the
doc, BUT have it overrideable.

Bobby

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Robert Staudinger
<robert.staudinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bobby,
>
> I have to agree to Tomas, there should preferably not be a visible
> smart quotes preference setting. For those cases where different quote
> characters are needed it should be easy enough to just do a pass of
> "search and replace" after a document is finished.
>
> FWIW, as an Austrian (we are speaking German) I have never seen one of
> the alternative quoting styles being used in any kind of handmade
> text, only in books.
>
> Just some "non-en" opinion, I'm not going to fight the preference either.
> Rob
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Bobby Weinmann
>
> <bobby.weinmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>
>
> > 1) The Smart Quotes tab in the preferences will either be added to or
> > removed (and the checkbox placed on another dialog).
> > 2) The Smart Quotes preferences - whatever form they're in - need to
> > be added to the non-GTK+ platforms. I could do Windows, but it would
> > be better if someone else could. I don't have a Visual Studio setup
> > at home, and I just started a new job, so I'm wary of doing it at
> > work. Cocoa (or whatever else Abiword supports) is beyond me.
> > 3) I believe that the default should be the predominant style of the
> > current locale, but that it should be easily changeable. Both because
> > of the multistyle locale and because of things like extended foreign
> > quotes, i.e. a couple paragraphs of French - quoted with guillemets -
> > in an English document. I think this is attainable with an extra
> > drop-down box on the Smart Quotes pref screen. Martin is right that
> > there really are only a couple of combinations.
> >
> > I will try to come up with something as soon as I can. If someone has
> > a better idea, by all means, submit it (preferably via a patch).
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Dominic Lachowicz
> > <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks, Tomas.My only remaining nit is that it takes up its own page
> > > in the preferences dialog. But that's not something to stop it from
> > > going into 2.6.
> > >
> > > -Dom
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Tomas Frydrych <tf@o-hand.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> > > > >> I agree, I think this should got into the 2.6 tree after the 2.6.0
> > > > >> release, so it is ready for 2.6.1 (it is non-invasive feature, that is
> > > > >> easy to turn off again, should that become necessary).
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd might prefer that it didn't quite yet, because undo doesn't work
> > > > > properly. Type "Hello World". Undo'ing turns curly quotes into
> > > > > straight quotes, so you have to undo twice to get rid of the quote.
> > > >
> > > > That's by design, I told Bobby it should be possible to undo the auto
> > > > replacement that way (word does it like that, and I recall using it
> > > > quite often, for what that is worth); I think also without this the old
> > > > undo/redo problem might resurface.
> > > >
> > > > Tomas
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums.
> > >
> >
>
Received on Tue Mar 18 16:46:17 2008