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- From: David Marshall <D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: FinalWriter for Windows 95
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 17:04:56 +0000
- Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK
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- William F. Maddock wrote:
- > All these features are nice to see and *will* improve the product, but you
- > *still* have not addressed the *one* feature I've been harping about for a
- > couple years now. Support the Adobe Standard Roman Character Set. This should
- > not be too difficult to do. The information needed to support the character
- > set is freely available from Adobe. As for programming it, you might be able
- > to get help from Soft-Logik in exchange for the document format of Final
- > Writer. This would help you improve your product and help Soft-Logik improve
- > theirs as well, all with *no* monetary expenditure. Given these facts, I fail
- > to see why this feature has not been added. I don't care how many different
- > kinds of graphics your *word* processor can handle if it can't handle simple
- > typographic quotes and a decent em-dash.
-
- Final Writer already support typographic quotes, dashes and ligatures. Load
- in any Type 1 fonts that contains the characters and they will appear - it
- does not support Adobe's encoding (a less than standard standard) but uses an
- extended Latin 1 character set. The characters in question appear in the
- region 128-160. I have a remapped keymap (British, I could hack any other if
- there is interest) that places the characters in sensible places. (Alt-[ and
- Alt-] become double quotes for example.)
-
- Dave
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