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Issue #|93611
Summary|match parentheses, quote marks, etc. for pairing
Component|Word processor
Version|OOo 2.4.0
Platform|PC
URL|
OS/Version|Linux
Status|UNCONFIRMED
Status whiteboard|
Keywords|
Resolution|
Issue type|FEATURE
Priority|P3
Subcomponent|editing
Assigned to|mru
Reported by|nicklevinson
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 8 14:53:24 +0000
2008 -------
Parentheses, quote marks, and the like should be checked for pairing, perhaps as
an enhancement of the spell-check, under More Options.
This is related to Issue 35339, though not identical.
A character-pair checker should do this:
-- An opening parenthesis should be closed; ditto brackets, braces, angle
brackets, quotation marks, etc.
-- A user should be able to define any pair of characters to be matched.
-- A user should be able to mark a single particular instance of a
character as not requiring matching. For example, a straight quotation mark
might be an apostrophe or a foot or inch mark.
-- A user should be able to mark instances of matched pairs, and thus
locate unmarked characters, useful when studying a long or complex context to
locate an apparent error. Example: if analyzing "he went to the store (to buy
diapers (for his new baby)))", pretending that that was very long or complex, by
marking the first and last parentheses as matched, then the second and third
parentheses as matched, the unmatched one can be highlighted. This exists in
some programming editors, but a manual option can be more reliable and faster.
-- A character pair may support a multiparagraph exception, as when an
opening quotation opens every consecutive paragraph until the last paragraph
contains a matching closing mark. This characteristic should be user-specifiable
for each character pair.
-- Nesting order should be enforceable, to prevent such formulations as "3
x 2 (+ 6 x [4 + 3)]".
-- Nesting levels should be user-definable.
-- -- American English specifies double quotation marks, with singles
nested within, with doubles nested within the singles, etc.
-- -- English English specifies the other way around.
-- -- American linguists' professional convention uses single quotation
marks when they're not quoting but stating a definition.
-- -- A quote inserted in brackets within a quote may use the same
quotation marks as the outer pair. For example, "John said he's going to the
grocery store so I called Pat and said John's going to the store." may be
accurately reduced to "I called Pat and said John's going to the ["grocery"]
store." Double quote marks appear inside double quote marks when insertional
brackets intervene; the same principle places single quote marks inside single
quote marks when insertional brackets intervene.
-- -- People differ on how to demarcate a parenthetical comment within a
parenthetical comment and that within another: some would use parentheses inside
(as in newspaper style), others would use brackets (as in math style), and if
using brackets the third level of nesting might call for braces (as in a
stricter math style) or, perhaps, parentheses. I believe that when three levels
are parentheses, brackets, and braces in that order then additional levels
repeat the cycle, but I should be checked on that.
I'm using OOo Writer 2.4.0 without Java Runtime Environment on Linux Fedora Core
4 with Gnome 2.10.0 desktop on a Pentium 4 laptop. I didn't see these features.
Thank you.
--
Nick
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