[softwarelist] Re: OPro RISC OS - controlling text file import
- From: John M Ward <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:12:05 +0100
In article <4C7B2A60.2000409@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Keith & Elizabeth Hopper <qnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 29/08/10 23:31, David Pilling wrote:
> > In message <2f7f594e51.Crawfords@mail>, Gavin Crawford
> > <gav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> > Perhaps you could call it "de-bobbleiser" [1]
> > [1] Mac + knitting pun
> I've always wanted a knitted Macintosh - my wife keeps
> threatening me with one!
They don't really exist: this is just a stitch-up...
Anyway, the business of smart quotes and associated matters has long
been a complex issue, especially with different fonts' character
mappings (public domain fonts brought over from other platforms in
particular).
I suspect there is no sensible universal way to solve this: it would
need a character table for every font; though that at least would allow
a specific font to be picked for the stitching in which one would have
no mapping for the double-hyphen, either as supplied or by the user
editing that fon't mapping.
--
John Ward in Medway, Kent - using RISC OS since 1987
Now using an Iyonix, an A9home, 2 RiscPCs and Virtual-RPC!
Acorn/RISC OS web page: www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers
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