[not cc'ing the developers]
if i remember correctly Atlantis has a toolbar item for inserting symbols, how about if Abiword did the same? File an RFE, Grab a small screenshot of Atlantis put it on the web and add a link to the bug report. On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Virgil Arrington Jr. wrote: > >there might be some way to allow this but if you can suggest a keybinding > >using Ctrl and a letter we could probably add that instead. (unless we > >have run out of keys already > > I'm not exactly enamoured with Ctrl-Alt key combinations. My only point was > that there should be a better way to insert special symbols than selecting > them through a menu system -- that takes too many steps and slows down > typing. Abi already allows for the automatic replacement of "dumb" straight > quotes with "smart" curly quotes. It would be nice to have a similar way to > replace, say two short dashes with a single m-dash or a 1/2 with its > supersubsript alternative. I suppose this is getting on the fringes of > auto-correct, which can be maddening when its correcting things you don't > want corrected, but it seems we have already started down that road with > smartquotes. > > > >im all for software encouraging laziness, i use software in the hope that > >it is less work than pen and paper. > > Agreed, butt ewe don't want you're program replacing you're brain with > spelling that mae bee accurate, but wrong. All too often, I've seen word > processing documents with excess typos only because the words passed the > spell checker. > > > >but there are some very clever features like "lock styles" which actually > >encourage some very good habits. some programs are so clever that they > >educate users in the best way of doing things. > > What are lock styles? There is a feature to lock styles. Googlesearch: site:abisource.com "Lock Styles" I dont feel like explaining it, I've never used it. > ----------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word > unsubscribe in the message body. Learn about Scientology, Dianetics http://xenu.net The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) stikes again http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/3/20/8222/92911 http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/ahl.txt http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/3/21/8503/37759;mode=moderate ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
