Re: abiword does not convert dashes (hyphens) properly??

Thanks for getting back.

Ah, that no autocorrect by design makes sense. I'd be quite contented
if it did indeed work that way. However, it seems that this must be a
bug because while abiword leaves single dashes as single dashes (as it
should) it turns both kinds of MSWord long dashes (both generated by
putting two dashes --) into single dash as well.

**New (related) Question**
Moreover, to my dismay, I have also noticed that abiword does not
convert single quotes into entities. It turns double quotes
appropriately into ” “ (or " if you had a non-curly
double quote for some reason) but turns single quotes into literal
straight quotes (whether they were straight or curly in Word) instead
of converting them to ‘ ’ or '.

I am wondering, is this last having to do with a conversion option or
something? It just reminds me, how, for instance, the PHP htmlentities
function by default is ENT_COMPAT, that is, converts double quotes but
not single quotes.

I will report these things as bugs, I guess.

Thanks!
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Received on Fri Jun 1 01:40:42 2007