On 7/13/02 11:19 PM, "Allen Watson" wrote: > What a lot of todo over a little slip of the fingers! Sorry for the extra ', > guys! ;-)
No! Don't be sorry. I've been wondering for ages about why whenever I mis-timed the ' I got two of them. Now that I know what's going on, of course, I still don't know of any solution, except to try to train my finger's to put the ' in, but at least I can stop wondering. > > On or near 7/13/02 9:27 PM, Rich Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > >> George Clark wrote on 7/13/02 8:23 PM >> >>>> Unless I'm blind (and I may be) the reason for that is that dont' isn't in >>>> the auto-correct dictionary only dont. So the computer, in typical computer >>>> fashion, fixes what it knows and leaves the last ' standing. >>>> >>>> Might fix that if you added your problem to the auto-correct pane. >>> >>> Well, "dont'" *is* in my auto-correct entries, as this: >>> >>> Change: dont' To: don't >>> >>> It doesn't do that, though; it becomes "don't'". The same thing happens with >>> "doesnt'", and probably some others. >>> >>> The problem is compounded by the fact that the spell-checker does not flag >>> it as an error. >>> >>> >>> George >> >> Sorry, I should have known. I can see what the problem is though it's >> because it can't check for opening and closing '. What would happen, in this >> case only, if you replaced the ' with curly variety I wonder. Probably >> nothing because if you didn't use "�" and you shouldn't I guess if you don't >> want the darn things misread by errant PC mail readers. Not to mention that >> you'd have to remember it each time. :-) >> >> (the font I'm currently using makes very little visual distinction between >> regular and curly quotes.) >> >> Rich -- Jan Martel in Davis, CA IBook 500; System 10.1.5, 9.2.2 -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
