Font access (again)

[Gary W. Shanafelt]

While I'm at it, back on January of 2004 I reported WP10 switching
characters. It still does, even with service pack 4. I checked, in
fact, and it does this for no less than nine characters, mapped at 166,
168, 173, 175, 176, 180, 181, 183, and 184. Try displaying the icons in
a font like Webdings and you get diacritics for these characters
instead. But they all display properly using MS Word or even MS
Wordpad. The newest version of WP Office, WP12, still has this bug.
Could someone try reporting it again? People aren't going to want to
use a word processor that fails to allow them to use all the characters
in a font... and this worked fine in my old WP8; it is a bug that has
crept in since then.

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Gary W. Shanafelt
http://cs1.mcm.edu/~gshan

[Charles Rossiter]

Gary,

Already responded to your previous message from a couple of days ago.

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Charles Rossiter
(South Africa)
Volunteer C_Tech
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[Gary W. Shanafelt]

Weird.  I composed a different message to report another bug with the fonts.  Somehow, the previous message was re-posted on the discussion board.  Quickly, it bug this: when you type a left guillemot («, code 0171), WP gives you not only the character but a space after it.  This occurs both if you input the character using the ALT 0171 sequence with the numeric keypad or if you use CTRL W 4,9.  You get no extra space if you type the right guillemot, 0187.  Has this be reported to the Powers That Be?

[Charles Rossiter]

Gary,

Interesting that there should be 2 posts on this within 3 days.

First, this is only half a bug! In French, the space is required, but
not in other languages which use « and » as quote marks. This has been
reported to Corel several times, with the suggestion that WPWin should
be aware of the language selected, and only add the space for French.

But the resolution is simple, providing you are using a keyboard with
the « key; or you have set the open quote character to be «.

Create the following macro:

If (?LeftChar = " " or ?LeftChar = "" or ?leftcode >0)
Type ("«")
DeleteCharPrevious ()
Else
Type ("»")
EndIf

and name it «.wcm. Then edit the keyboard to assign macro «.wcm to the
« keystroke (or the " keystroke, if set in SmartQuotes). Now when you
type « it will no longer have a trailing space.

> "Gary W. Shanafelt" wrote:
>
> Weird. I composed a different message to report another bug with the
> fonts. Somehow, the previous message was re-posted on the discussion
> board. Quickly, it bug this: when you type a left guillemot («, code
> 0171), WP gives you not only the character but a space after it. This
> occurs both if you input the character using the ALT 0171 sequence
> with the numeric keypad or if you use CTRL W 4,9. You get no extra
> space if you type the right guillemot, 0187. Has this be reported to
> the Powers That Be?
>

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[Gary W. Shanafelt]

At least there is a rational explanation for this one!  I've got books in both French and German that use guillemots for quotations, so I'll check them for spaces when I get home.

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Gary W. Shanafelt
http://cs1.mcm.edu/~gshan

[Gary W. Shanafelt]

Further checking: my French books use a space on BOTH guillemots, left and right.  So WP should either add a space for both of them or neither of them; just the left one doesn't seem very logical.  The German book I checked uses them in reverse »like this« rather than « like this »; though most German books use left quotation marks set at the baseline of the font ,,like this''.  Exciting stuff, huh? ...

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Gary W. Shanafelt
http://cs1.mcm.edu/~gshan