>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? >i suspect abiword has good word support for all the features it can >actually render, not being able to draw tables and other things being a >major stumbling block. Abi's Word compatibility is good, but until its RTF files can save the default font size to all paragraphs, even blank ones, and save its page margins correctly, it still needs some work as Abi-saved RTF files reopened in Word still need to be reformatted. Virgil _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
