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title="NEW - EDITING / FORMATTING Bad management of em dash in Spanish language texts"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128994#c4">Comment # 4</a>
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title="NEW - EDITING / FORMATTING Bad management of em dash in Spanish language texts"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128994">bug 128994</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:josemoya@gmail.com" title="José Moya <josemoya@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">José Moya</span></a>
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<pre>Hi!
I have reported to Unicode Consortium. I can't believe the Spanish companies
and institutions represented at Unicode Consortium did not report this, but,
hey, they are Spanish, so they are not supposed to do their job.
I want to clarify I am the same "Arcalaus" that wrote about quotes at the link
<a href="https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122337">https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122337</a>
But there is a misunderstanding. I am not talking about using the Autoquotes to
change quotes into em dashes. That would not solve the situation.
I am talking about what, in Unicode jargon, would be, "removing em dash from B2
and assigning it to QU if the language setting is Spanish".
Also, please notice that inserting a ZWNBS before every em dash would be a pain
in the *ss. Just imagine a 50k word novel with 10000 lines of dialogue, every
one featuring between one and three em dashes. Inserting the ZWNBSP is
difficult, and programming a macro to do it is way difficult (I can program a
MsWord macro in minutes, but a OOo / LibreOffice macro gets me weeks).
Finally, there is the question of compatibility between platforms. I am writing
you because in my new job they use LibreOffice. I have word at home. A
literature exam prepared in my home, with the em dashes in the right places,
gets a piece of crap (em dashes put in places where they should not go) when I
print it at my workplace. Yes, I could use PDF, but I am against PDF for my own
reasons.
Yours,
José Moya</pre>
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