Re: Cursor position and print problems - 1.99.3 - Win98

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Sun Aug 10 2003 - 12:24:13 EDT

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    On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Jack Dodds wrote:

    > Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 06:58:19 -0400
    > From: Jack Dodds <brmdamon@aci.on.ca>
    > To: abiword-user@abisource.com
    > Subject: Cursor position and print problems - 1.99.3 - Win98
    >
    > I have noticed some strange behaviour with Abiword on Windows 98. I
    > have now upgraded to 1.99.3 (on two different Win98 computers) but some
    > of this I have noticed with 1.9.1 and -maybe- earlier versions.
    >
    > 1. The cursor is sometimes not displayed in the correct place.
    >
    > Specifically, I run Abiword (new document) and enter:
    >
    > The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumped
    > over the lazy dog.
    >
    > Then do View-Zoom-Zoom...-Percent and enter "103" as the zoom percentage.
    >
    > Now back to the Abiword window and with the mouse, put the cursor just
    > after the second "dog" and before the ".". Now hit backspace. The "d"
    > is deleted, not the "g".

    I have seen similar problems and as far as I can tell they are related to
    font kerning, I think there is still some code incorrectly assumign fixed
    character widths.
    I think, but I am by no means certain that this is a known problem an that
    there are bugs filed in bugzilla but even if they are they may be quite
    difficult to identify from the descriptions.

    > Right now the Abiword site appears to be down, or I'd enter these in
    > Bugzilla, and I will do so when I can. But in the meantime, are other
    > Windows users having these problems?

    I am not currently haveing any problmes with the abiword site but it has
    been known to be quite tempremental in the past. Even if there is a
    problem the developers usually resolve it fairly quickly to please do try
    again later.

    > Thanks and congratulations to the developers for producing a great piece

    Helping to test and find bugs is very much appreciated, thank you too.

    > of software! My university student daughter will really appreciate the
    > new footnote/table features - she likes Abiword on her Thinkpad 600
    > (Win98) but has had to finish off papers in OpenOffice to add these
    > features.

    I am glad to see people embracing both Abiword and OpenOffice, people
    sometimes forget that using both is an option.

    Sincerely

    Alan Horkan
    http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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