Re: The TechWriter miracle

Date	2012-08-07 07:08 +0100
From	Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: The TechWriter miracle
Message-ID	<56855ebb52.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
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In message <d01af5ba52.martin@bach.planiverse.com>
 on 6 Aug 2012 Martin Wuerthner  wrote:

> In message <52ba026303see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
>           Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> 
> wrote:
> 
> > IMHO, I do not think that apps should tamper with the
> > keyboard without making the effects easily user
> > configurable.
> 
> EW does not tamper with the keyboard, nor does UKey. It is up to each 
> application to interpret keyboard input in the way it wants. For most 
> users' convenience, EW gives some extra meanings to the otherwise 
> redundant keypad keys. You can configure that behaviour, though 
> admittedly in a user-unfriendly way (by editing resource files). 

EasiWriter does give a friendly configuration option for smart quotes, the
option which converts '' to closing double quotes and `` to opening double
quotes, if typed quickly enough.  I guess it probably covers -- and --- for
en dash and em dash.

The numeric keyboard "tampering" in EasiWriter I am aware of is the way / *
and - result in the divide sign, multiplication sign and a proper minus sign
being input.  Also . on the numeric keypad results in a decimal point centred
vertically with the numbers.

All but this last I find quite useful.  I find the decimal point irritating
because these days I rarely type numbers unless they are sums of money, and
for money the normal full stop would normally be used.

So to satisfy every user, I'm afraid Martin might have to add friendly
configuration key by key!  While I find the decimal point annoying, I do
cope.

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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          Re: The TechWriter miracle Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2012-08-02 22:33 +0100

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