v5 for Mac

Does anyone know if either of the following bugs been corrected in version 5
for Mac OS X?

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I can tell you for sure that the second one has not been fixed. The only 
solution is to set the notebook magnification at 100%. It is incredibly 
annoying.

-- 
Gary L. Gray                    Engineering Science & Mechanics
Associate Professor                       Penn State University
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The first of these --- the (not) rotated text bug --- has not been  
fixed either.

Another bizarre bug has popped up in 5.0: In text cells, lines are  
sometimes broken after apostrophes. So a word like  
can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t will break between \[CloseCurlyQuote] and t.  
Astonishing. I wonder if that happens in Windows too.

-----
Selwyn Hollis
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The first of these --- the (not) rotated text bug --- has not been  
fixed either.

Another bizarre bug has popped up in 5.0: In text cells, lines are  
sometimes broken after apostrophes. So a word like  
can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t will break between \[CloseCurlyQuote] and t.  
Astonishing. I wonder if that happens in Windows too.

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Selwyn Hollis
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Selwyn,

The CloseCurlyQuote bug does sometimes happen in Windows98.

David Park
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From: Selwyn Hollis [mailto: XXXX@XXXXX.COM ]

The first of these --- the (not) rotated text bug --- has not been  
fixed either.

Another bizarre bug has popped up in 5.0: In text cells, lines are  
sometimes broken after apostrophes. So a word like  
can\[CloseCurlyQuote]t will break between \[CloseCurlyQuote] and t.  
Astonishing. I wonder if that happens in Windows too.

-----
Selwyn Hollis
 http://www.**--****.com/ 

I've come to a standstill with v 5 on OS X (10.2.6).  After months of
back-and-forth with Wolfram support, they have declared it a personal
problem.  (Can't duplicate but won't tell me what machines they tested
it on.)

Apparently the problem is machine dependent-- it happens with 100%
reliability on our fast dual processor machines, but not on our
laptops. To see the problem (or not), put a series of expressions of
the form (multiple expressions accelerates the crash) into a cell and
evaluate:

ExportString["a","GIF"];
ExportString["a","GIF"];
. . . .

Also crashes Mathematica with other image formats.  I would appreciate
hearing how others fare with this (esp. w.r.t. machine).  Wolfram support
accuses me (literally!!) of having an impure system.  Impure thoughts
maybe, but I replicated this on a machine right out of its carton, with
-only- Mathematica installed.  (Hmm, maybe they meant Mathematica....)

I'm sorry for sending what amounts to a bug report to the list, but
I went through channels with no joy.  Unfortunately, this feature is
important to a series of my applications, hence my frustration.

A few other notes: -  Even if this fails to crash Mathematica (on a PB
for example), it's an order of magnitude (!!) slower than 4.2

- Under Panther, any export call of this type is DOA (dead stall), whatever the machine.

- Nothing like this happens under v 4.2 (even under Panther), but
it is apparent from my observations that Mathematica's converter,
gif.exe/pnm.exe, has a memory leak.  The converters (4.2) are unusably
slow under Panther.

Michael Williams Mathematics {*filter*}ia Tech


On  9/16/03,   XXXX@XXXXX.COM  (Selwyn Hollis)  said:

....

Here's the fix for the CloseCurlyQuote "bug" (thanks to tech support):

============
``In SystemFiles/FrontEnd/TextResources/UnicodeCharacters.tr, look for  
the
entries for 2018 and 2019.  They are, presently...

0x2018 \[OpenCurlyQuote] ($['$	 $‘$) Open -10 None 0
0 0x2019
0x2019 \[CloseCurlyQuote] ($]'$   $’$) Close -10 None
0 0

Change them to...

0x2018 \[OpenCurlyQuote] ($['$	 $‘$) Letter
0x2019 \[CloseCurlyQuote] ($]'$   $’$) Letter

Now delete caches and restart. ''
===============

(Note: I've noticed--since 5.0--that editing .tr files with Mathematica  
ruins them, because they're turned into notebooks. Twice now I've had  
to restore a .tr file from the CD, and then do the editing with a text  
editor.)

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