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- Bear in mind that some of these changes only really come into effect in the
- registered version. You know what to do…
-
- Changes since version 1.50
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-
- This version is a very minor update - just a few bug fixes. They were
- reasonably serious bugs, so it's worth it, but there's little new
- functionality.
- * Hopefully Smart Quotes shouldn’t chew up your text like it did before. It
- is now more paranoid, and will give up guessing more often. This isn’t
- seriously noticeable, however, which is a good thing.
- * The default quote is a closed quote rather than an open one. This means
- that if you want to type a quotation (“Hello world”) you’ll have to type
- Hello World”, then move back and insert the quote. But it also means that if
- you’ve typed “dont,” and Smart Quotes has stopped guessing and doesn’t know
- about the “don’t,” when you move back to insert the apostrophe it will insert
- a correct one.
- * Smart Quotes used to give up expanding expands after you’d typed 255
- characters (obscure, but annoying). Now it doesn’t ;-).
- * New expands have been added to solve the problem of sentences
- accidentally starting in lower-case, as well as uncapitalised “I”s (the
- English pronoun) which makes you look likes Molesworth. These won’t work in
- the unregistered version, however – yet another reason to register ;-).
-
- Changes since version 1.25
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-
- OK, in version 1.25 I said there shouldn’t be any more changes… Well, I had
- a few more ideas ;-). As a result, from version 1.50 on, Smart Quotes is
- shareware (see “Register” for how to register). The source code is now only
- available to registered users (as otherwise you’d be able to compile yourself
- a registered version ;-)).
-
- The major change is that Smart Quotes now knows where you are in the text by
- remembering what you’ve typed in previously – this can fall down
- occasionally, but works for the vast majority of the time. This means you can
- backtrack to some degree, and Smart Quotes will still insert the correct
- quote. As a consequence, single quote handling has been merged into double
- quote handling, so there is now only one quote option: quotes on, or quotes
- off.
-
- Because Smart Quotes now works out which quote to insert by guessing where
- the cursor is, rather than counting quotes or checking for certain
- keypresses, it is no longer as easy, or as desirable, to show the next quote
- in the icon. Instead, Smart Quotes will show an open double quote or a
- neutral double quote if quotes are on or off respectively, and will flash a
- question mark if it has no idea where you are in the text.
-
- Another advantage of knowing where you are, is that Smart Quotes now knows
- when you delete a ligature – Æ, æ, Œ, œ, fi and fl (ellipsis … is also
- handled). If you delete fi from the right (e.g. press Backspace), it will
- insert f; if you delete fi from the left (press Copy) it will insert i.
-
- Diphthongs have been heavily expanded and are now called Expands – an awkward
- name, but at least more accurate. All the *commands have been changed
- as a result; the command RemoveDiphthong has been removed as it was
- awkward to convert. AddExpands, as it is now, has a new syntax:
- *AddExpands -f <string> -r <string>
- The <string> can be enclose in quotes; any actual quote marks in the string
- should be doubled.
- Expands are two parts, the found and substitution parts (diphthongs had
- three parts, first character, second character and substitution character).
- Each part can be up to 7 characters long (in the registered version, that is
- – they are still only 2 characters in the unregistered version). This means
- you can type in ™, ©, ®, Œ, œ, Æ, æ, …, ", ' and probably other symbols more
- easily; you can also automatically correct punctuation (see the “Expands” file
- for more details).
-
- As a consequence the front end has been revamped, especially the Edit Expand
- window.
-
- The keyboard shortcuts have been changed, as the single quotes settings have
- been removed. A new option, shift-ctrl click, has been added: this drags the
- icon around, either on the icon bar (it moves), or off the icon bar (a
- floating window appears which you can drag around in the same way).
- Shift-Ctrl-Select drags the icon, Shift-Ctrl-Adjust swaps between the icon
- bar and the floating window. The position of the window is saved with the
- Choices.
-
- On a minor (but cosmetic) point, Smart Quotes' icon now has a mask so any
- window textures still appear. For some reason in a 32 000 colour mode the
- icon colour didn’t quite match the iconbar colour – this problem should now
- be fixed.
-
- Finally, “remember state of quotes” has been removed, because Smart Quotes no
- longer bothers to remember whether a quote should be open or closed, but
- works it out from the context.
-
- Changes planned for the next version
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-
- File handling is next, and possibly keyboard handling if I can get round to
- modifying WimpKey again. As always, if you have any comments, suggestions,
- complaints or bug reports, please get in touch. Those who have in the past
- have been sent complimentary registered versions, so it’s worth it ;-).