Re: FW: Newbie question

Ryan Pavlik wrote:
>
> Tonio Green wrote:
>
>> Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> schrieb am 29.11.2005 23:48:54:
>>
>>
>>> Tonio Green wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, I only just found out about AbiWord and just downloaded it
>>>> today, so sorry if this is a stupid newbie question. How do I enter
>>>> special characters outside the Basic Latin and Latin-1 character
>>>> blocks? When I go to the Insert menu and select Character, I'm only
>>>> given a choice of characters up through thorn, even for fonts that
>>>> have characters beyond that. Isn't AbiWord Unicode-compatible?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> What operating system are you using? As far as I know, we support
>>> Unicode on Windows NT, 2000, XP, Linux/Unix, and perhaps MacOS X
>>> (unsure), but not Windows 9x/ME (yet).
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm using Windows NT. The characters work okay if I copy them from
>> somewhere else (Wikipedia, an MS Word document, what have you) and
>> paste them into my AbiWord document, but that's a pain. As I said, if
>> I go to the Insert menu and select Character, I'm only given a
>> selection of characters from Basic Latin and Latin-1, even for huge
>> fonts like Arial Unicode MS and Code2000. Did I maybe download the
>> wrong version? (I have 2.4.1.)
>>
>>
> Hmm, that is the latest version, and it should work. Please file a bug
> at bugzilla.abisource.com.
>
>> Also, I can't get smart quotes to work. I go to
>> Tools->Preferences->Layout and select "Enable smart quotes", but when
>> I type I still get typewriter quotes.
>>
>>
> There are some serious issues with smart quotes, namely that they do not
> currently work. See http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8629
> and possibly http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1845 - feel
> free to add yourself as a CC to those bugs.
>
>> Also, it seems not to be possible to format text as small caps. Is
>> that true, or am I missing something? (I know I can always write it in
>> all caps and then go back and put them in a smaller font size, but
>> that's a pain too.)
>>
>>
> Small caps I believe is something that would be implemented as a font
> style. We do not currently have an option to simulate it - you could
> file an RFE (feature request) at bugzilla.abisource.com

One is already filed: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1851
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Received on Wed Nov 30 07:01:29 2005