Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 15623
Custom quotation marks appear large and badly spaced
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:56:16 UTC
From the default configuration, custom quotation marks are not working properly. They appear to be about 4 points too big and they are incorrectly spaced. This occurs with new documents as well as older SXW files. It is not font style or size dependent and the only way to make it go away is to switch off the custom quotes option in the Autotext menu. I have tried re-downloading from a different mirror and reinstalling. I also made sure that my entire system was up-to-date. The problem does not occur in OO.org 1.0.3 or any other application -- this is specific to OO.org 1.1beta2. My system is as follows: Gentoo Linux v1.4 using 2.4.20-mmsources kernel Problem occurs under all tested environments (KDE, Gnome, Fluxbox, Enlightenment) Intel D845GBVL motherboard Intel 2.53 P4 processor 512MB Apacer PC2700 CL2.5 RAM MSI GeForce4 TI4200 64MB (using Nvidia's driver with DRI enabled) Creative Labs SB Audigy 1394
Created attachment 6886 [details] Screen shot of the problem
Looks fine on my XP. What are you changing the custom quotation marks to look like? By default replace regular quotes with custom quotes is checked in the tools/autocorrect/options section, but the default in tools/autocorrect/custom quotes section is that they should look the same whether you have it turned on or off.
The settings are at the default. The screen shot I posted is the first thing I typed after a clean install. I uninstalled all OO.org programs from the system and then downloaded and installed 1.1beta2 and that's what I saw. I downloaded a new copy from a different mirror and got the same results. When I install OO.org 1.02 or 1.03 this does not happen. When I turn off custom quotes in the autocorrect dialogue then there are of course no custom quotes and the problem disappears -- unless of course I turn that on again.
I'll look at it on my Linux system later tonight and see if I can get the problem to appear. Is is possibly you have your font set to something that is causing the problem?
I checked this on my Mandrake 9.0 using a newly installed OOo1.1Beta2, and didn't have a problem with the default settings either. What font is Writer using on startup? Have you tried changing it?
Created attachment 7039 [details] screen shot #2 showing the issue in a different way
It doesn't matter what font I use, but there's an interesting addition to this issue: while typing the fonts are really screwed up. If I hit the enter key to go to the next line, the font switches to default for the line I've just typed. I've attached a second screen shot showing what the defualt font is after hitting enter. The second line shows what the Avante Garde font looks like after hitting enter, and the third line shows what Avante Garde looks like without hitting enter. Notice that the quote appears as a question mark and that the spaces between words do not show up. If I hit enter after line three, it will appear exactly as line two.
*** Issue 15978 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This issue is duplicate to issue 4008. Pls. see my comments in there. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4008 ***
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