[PD-dev] weird bug: dot in comment disappears

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 28, 2006, at 3:22 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> If have text in a comment that has a . in the second position, and a
>> space in the third position, the . is not saved.  But if you
>> dynamically generate that comment, the dot is saved.
>
> This bug works different, however. Every number followed by a dot and
> a space is affected, however comments starting with a letter and a dot
> aren't. So this comment is okay:
>
>   a. something
>
> but this isn't:
>
>   numbers: 1. 2. 3. 4.
>
> Pd converts floating point numbers in comments if possible, so
> they don't contain floating points anymore.

The weird thing is that if you auto-generate the comment with the 1.,  
then it survives a copy-paste.  Try the patch in the bug tracker, if  
you haven't already.

.hc

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