Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!plaid!chuq From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Hypercard misfeature (I claim bug!) Message-ID: <37249@sun.uucp> Date: 23 Dec 87 05:35:32 GMT Sender: news@sun.uucp Lines: 23 I just ran into something I consider a major misfeature of Hypercard (actually, I consider it a bug, but I'll be nice). If you do a lot of writing, you usually end up relying on one of the various smart quote inits that replace ' and " with the appropriate typeset curly thingies. Hypercard doesn't understand these things. This means that if you're trying to do some work in Hypercard and your word processor at the same time (as I was) you things start getting really confused. Switch into Word, turn on quotes, type something, switch into hypercard (I love multifinder! wow!), turn off quotes, hack, switch.... ad nauseum. ugh. The mac is supposed to be modeless. This is an unneccessary mode switch. All Hypercard has to do is convert and to " and and to ' -- a trivial operation for hypercard and a big win for the user. Hey, APPLE! Please put this on the christmas list for the next release! chuq --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ