Subject: Re: "special characters" and a problem
From: Dick Kampman (dkampman@xs4all.nl)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 05:22:45 CST
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Robert Sievers wrote:
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:25:34 -0600
> From: Robert Sievers <bob@abisource.com>
> To: dkampman@xs4all.nl, abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: "special characters" and a problem
>
> At , Dick Kampman wrote:
> >I am using AbiWord for a couple of days, after having used Applixword for
> >about 2 years. I like the abw-format of AbiWord, which is based on XML,
> >I understand.
> >
> >1. Is it possible to to insert "SPECIAL CHARACTERS" into the textsurface
> >with the help of escapecodes?
>
> You can enter special characters into AbiWord. Rather than use escape
> codes, you can directly enter them from the keyboard. Of course, you have
> to be using a foreign keyboard layout.
I have no "foreign" keyboard, but simply an american one. In antique
times it was possible in (e.g. WordPerfect) to use a hexnumber, or two
keystrokes to insert a special character (e-accentgrave) in the text. Can
I do this with AbiWord too?
>
> >Further, I encountered a PROBLEM when writing text: sometimes a word
> >disappears from the textsurface, while white space remains. After saving
> >and restarting AbiWord, the word appears again. Can you explain what is
> >happening, and how I can improve this feature?
>
> There have been a few problems like this in the past. First, make sure you
> are you using AbiWord 0.7.8. If so, let's take this off the list. Send me
> personal email with a reproducible set of steps that shows the problem, and
> I will get it isolated and logged.
>
Yes I am using 0.7.8.
I tried to reproduce this problem, but I could not. I thought, that it had
something to do with the subsequent use of backspace and return keys.
Possibly it has something to do with the "pagenumber space" at the top of
the textsurface.
What I could reproduce was: when I use the backspace-key to place the
first line of a paragraph back to the end of the former paragraph, and
after that I use a "return" to restore the beginsituation, than some words
appear in the "pagenumber space".
It might be, that there is some connection between these two problems.
Dick Kampman
dkampman@xs4all.nl
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