Showing highlighted text

From: Chris Vine (chris_at_cvine.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 09:54:03 EST

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    Hi,

    I have not been able to show highlighted text correctly with either
    abiword-2.0.0 or abiword-2.0.1. The text is highlighted as far as the
    operation of the program is concerned (it manipulates the selected text in
    the ordinary way), but abiword chooses white as the background colour for
    highlighting, which is indistinguishable from the background white colour for
    unhighlighted text. So although the text is selected, it cannot be
    identified by the user.

    The only way I can indentify the selected text is by going to
    Tools->Preferences->Layout, checking the "Allow screen colours other than
    white" and picking a non-white colour (or doing the same via
    Format->Background). However, then non-selected text has the chosen colour
    as its background, and the selected text has a white background, which is the
    reverse of the effect I would like.

    I also notice that checking "Enable smart quotes" fails to work, even though
    the relevant smart quote characters (U+201C and U+201D) are available in the
    relevant font set and can be found by other word processors, and indeed can
    be seen and displayed by abiword in documents written with smart quotes by
    other word processors and then opened up in abiword. However, this seems to
    be a different bug.

    I compiled abiword myself from sources with gcc-3.2.3, and I am using
    GTK+-2.2.4, gnome-2.4.0 and fontconfig-2.2.1.

    Can anyone help?

    Chris.

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