Re: Capitalize first letter of sentence

From: Virgil Arrington Jr. (virgilarrington@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 04 2002 - 22:26:09 GMT

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    Feature v. bug. Capitalizing the first letter in a sentence is a feature.
    It doesn't have to be implemented for the software to be useful. I'm not a
    developer, but I have found I can live just fine without this feature,
    although I have used it and found it useful as well. I guess it goes to the
    larger issue of "auto-correct" If some form of auto-correct is implemented
    ("the" for "teh") then there will have to be some way to also capitalize the
    first letter of a sentence, otherwise "Teh" may be corrected to "the". I've
    found autocorrect to take a lot of getting used to as I typically feel a
    typo as I make it and automatically start hitting the backspace key, even
    before completing the word. With autocorrect, I have to force myself to
    continue typing a word I know is incorrect because I know the computer will
    fix it anyway. That has been a hard transition. I do find autocorrect
    useful for inserting special symbols, such as replacing -- with an m-dash
    (still a cumbersome process with Abi).

    By contrast, a bug is where, say for instance, the program doesn't insert a
    font-size code into a blank line in RTF files. Now, *that's* a bug that
    should be fixed.

    Just my humble opinion.

    Virgil

    >From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
    >To: Francisco Bornéo <cborneo@mail.ligbr.com.br>
    >CC: abiword-user@abisource.com
    >Subject: Re: Capitalize first letter of sentence
    >Date: 04 Mar 2002 23:04:47 +0100
    >
    >On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 22:33, Francisco Bornéo wrote:
    >
    > > >1) I create this software for myself. The fact other people use it is
    > > >secondary to my interests. My motivations are my own.
    > >
    > > So, why do you release in the web?
    >
    >Because WE (the other developer) do. What is an artist that does not
    >publish ?
    >
    > > A singer, a poet, a painter and a programmer, well every creator don't
    >do a
    > > work for his own. We do our works for the world!!
    >
    >Nope. Each people do it for his own reasons.
    >
    > > >There's a difference, as is shown by people's opinions on the mailing
    > > >list so far - not one person has agreed with you.
    > >
    > > How many people are in the list? How many people, that are only users,
    > > really write to the list???
    >
    >407 subscribers.
    >Dev list is 254.
    >
    >
    >Hub
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