Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Who on Earth is the LibO installation target?

On 02/10/2014 06:44 PM, heinzlesspam@gmail.com wrote:
> Anyway, just want to pick out a single from all your points: the single quote correction.
> The reason why it's off by default is because it is not clever enough to tell when an apostrophe 
> (as in Rock 'n' roll, in the worst case with exactly that spelling) or an actual quote is meant, as 
> the key pressed in either case is the same. The compromise then of course is that we get neither 
> typographically correct... which seems to lead lots of people to misappropriate accents for 
> apostrophes.

My take is that all such rules (another example being whether to use or 
to break a ligature), to be practically useful, need to employ 
(locale-dependent) context-sensitive heuristics (the same way that 
automatic hyphenation does).

Stephan

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