Issue 53416 - en/em dash autocorrect fails when preceeded by a field (i.e.footnote)
Summary: en/em dash autocorrect fails when preceeded by a field (i.e.footnote)
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 5018
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Oliver Specht
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2005-08-16 23:05 UTC by boardquake
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description boardquake 2005-08-16 23:05:42 UTC 
When typing:

"The European Court decision in the Microsoft case(112)--where the court ruled
bla bla bla--caught the attention of IP lawyers everywhere."

[The (112) refers to a footnote anchor in the text] 

I would expect autocorrect to convert -- into a dash. For once, don't tell me
that this is a special use and that OOO is not for me.

See also related:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=49809
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5018
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=35596
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-08-17 08:23:25 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2005-08-18 08:26:47 UTC 
ES->OS: following cases don't work:
1) <field><space>--<text><space> -> '--' should turn into eN-dash but doesn't
2) <field>--<text><space> '--' should turn into eM-dash but doesn't

furthermore (maybe a duplicate of the issues mentioned above):
3) <text>--<space><text><space> -> will not autocorrect the '--' at all.
Comment 3 julianna 2006-04-20 12:11:46 UTC 
Can this be merged with 5018?
Comment 4 boardquake 2006-04-20 14:30:56 UTC 
Yes! Merging with an issue opened in 2002 is gonna help!

Seriously, your best bet is to map your keyboard to get alt-0150/1 when you need it.
Comment 5 stefan.baltzer 2007-07-18 17:20:18 UTC 
SBA: Duplicate of enhancement issue 5018. Never mind its age, obviously, it is
still valid. 
I ran into another duplicate and try to consolidate the related issues to ease
an overview.

The rules are:
Basically, the older issue "wins". Only if a newer one is "better described"
(i.e. without a few meter of useless discussion or misleading comments), we tend
to use "the one that is more efficient while reading". 
...and sometimes "the one without insults and bashing of people who make the
product that comes to you for FREE" are the ones we prefer to deal with :-)

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 5018 ***
Comment 6 Mechtilde 2008-11-05 20:36:36 UTC 
close the duplicate