Re: spell correction/capitalization

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le vendredi 22 mars 2013 à 07:28 -0400, Marcel van de Vusse a écrit :
> Hit a snag this morning. Entering text into a cell this morning I 
> notices that any text followed by a period and a space, then the next 
> word is automatically capitalized. I tried to change it to no avail, 
> Gnumeric insists on changing it back to a capital.
>
> So, entering "incl. firewood" becomes "incl. Firewood".
>
> What gives?

In the Preferences dialog, uncheck "Autocorrect first letter", and
things should work.
> Gnumeric 1.10.17 under Fedora 16. I know it's an old version, but 
> hesitant about upgrading because once in the past after an upgrade the 
> newer Gnumeric would refuse to read my old files causing me to make all 
> my data useless.

This should NEVER occur. If Gnumeric does not open a gnumeric file,
please file a bug report and attach a sample.

Regards,
Jean