Re: [icon-users] Quotes problem

  • From: Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Icon Users Group <icon-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:14:38 +0000 (GMT)

In article <ce67ecf64f.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4ff6e1fa44riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Ashbery
>           <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> EasiWriter's "Smart quotes" feature works differently from that of
> other applications and is not really smart at all. At the end of
> the day, it is only a collection of shortcuts for entering sexed
> quotes.

> I will probably add proper smart quotes at some stage - it is
> fairly trivial and I have done it for Xara some time ago. By the
> way: around that time I added a very nice Lorem ipsum generator to
> Xara Xtreme, which is actually exactly the one I had done for
> EasiWriter...

Lorem ipsum has been useful.

> Once that is done we will have the problem that the new feature
> should really be called "Smart quotes", so we will have to find
> some other name for the existing feature (e.g., "Sexed quotes
> shortcuts" though this feature can be used to define shortcuts for
> all sorts of special characters not just quotes - see Jim's tips
> "quote.html").

Look forward to that Martin. 

Regards

Richard

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