Re: A "thankyou" to Alan and another question to him or the group....Bugor just my system??

From: msevior_at_physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 11:27:30 EST

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    > On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 Coggins8_at_netscape.net wrote:
    >
    >> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:31:09 -0500 From: Coggins8_at_netscape.net To:
    >> abiword-user_at_abisource.com Subject: A "thankyou" to Alan and another
    >> question to him or the
    >> group....Bug or just my system??
    >>
    >> Thanks for the reply. When I install it again, I'll give that a try.
    >> I also found a short cut, which is just to drag and drop the saved file
    >> over to the Abiword icon, which opens it as well.
    >
    > Thanks, but the thanks should really go to the Developers. Answering
    > questions is just my way of trying to thank the developers for providing
    > the great software.
    >
    >> However, another problem has come up, which may be a bug. I've had this
    >> problem in Word before as well, but it always seems to fix itself after
    >> a while and I never know exactly what happened. The problem is that
    >> when some letters follow other specific letters in the text, Abiword
    >> leaves an extra space, making the word look terrible and the spell
    >> checker marks it.
    >>
    >> I was trying to write the word "perceive", and the 'e' following the 'v'
    >> at the end was two spaces from the 'e'. B following v does the same
    >> thing, but, say k, is perfectly alright. Some other word combinations
    >> have the same effect, and others don't. Any ideas on this one?
    >
    > My guess would be that the version of Abiword for Windows that you are
    > currently using still has some glitches in the drawing code where the
    > space between letters is determined.

    I think Tomas might have finally fixed this bug. The upcoming 2.0.4
    finally has this fixed.

    Martin

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