Re: FW: Newbie question

Tonio Green wrote:

>Ryan Pavlik <abiryan@ryand.net> schrieb am 29.11.2005 23:48:54:
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>>Tonio Green wrote:
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>>>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?
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>>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).
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>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.)
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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.
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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.)
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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

Thanks for using AbiWord!

-- 
Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller
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