Is the Linux desktop really here ? was:Re:[linux-audio-user]ebayguy: looks like he figured it out

[Ross Vandegrift]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:35:21AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > That can be corrected. I think you right click on the document and 
> > select the page properties. I can't remember what setting I had to 
> > select. I don't know why it changed. It is easy to fix though. I just 
> > remember it was a setting in there.
> > 
> > Jeremiah
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the info Jeremiah. Can you lend any insight into why it
> should have changed and started doing this? Is it possible that my 11
> year old did something by accident to set this off?

The question marks are a reult of Microsoft's SmartQuotes feature - it
replaces the straight quotes with direction quotes (like TeX does for ``
and '' instead of ").

OO.o has an option to enable processing Microsoft SmartQuotes - I
suspect that's the setting that's giving the trouble.


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