Subject: Re: apostrophes and quotes in RTF format
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 16:10:07 CST
On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Tony Reed wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 11:05:03 +0000
> Alan <horkana@tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> :Please post this in Bugzilla and attach the document. If StarOffice
> :wont open it properly it sounds like a StarOffices problem, but im sure
> :the Abiword developers would want to make sure they aren't doing
> :something that messes with StarOffice. Please state the version of
> :Abiword and StarOffice (5.2 i presume, but have you tried the StarOffice
> :6 beta yet?)
>
> Saving a file to plain text and opening it in Emacs, the same problem
> -- all the quotes are "curly." It's not an Emacs problem, trust me.
>
It's Star Office's problem. They don't support the sophisticated quote's
we do in AbiWord.
Tell you friend to upgrade to abiword :-)
Alternatively turn off "Enable Smart Quotes". I don't know if this will
fix the problem with pre-existing documents though.
Martin
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