Re: Jumping Cursor. Was: Right-to-Left Punctuation Problem

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Tue Aug 02 2005 - 17:44:11 CDT

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Gregg Reynolds wrote:

> I can't even count the times I've just given up because *I couldn't
> even edit* monolingual Arabic text because of MS Word's bizarro
> behaviour with parens, punctuation, etc. After ten minutes of trying
> to get it to behave in some semblance of a reasonable manner, I just
> end up deleting and starting over. It is very clear to me that the
> only reason anybody uses such software is because they have no other
> choice, not because they are satisfied with it.
>
Then fix the software. Unicode ain't broke (here). Fix what is.

~mark

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