Wrong capitalisation with auto correction

[anweid]

Affinity Publisher 1.8.0.502 (and previous versions) can automatically capitalise the first character in sentences. In order not to capitalise behind abbreviations, a list of common abbreviations is supplied. Fine. Unfortunately, the detection of the end of a sentence without abbreviations is more unreliable than with other programs: Apparently, Publisher not only looks at the last character entered and checks for end characters like '.!?' and such, but also at other characters before that, resulting in unwanted capitalisation. In all following examples, the second part of the sentence was wrongly capitalised, because Publisher finds an exclamation mark somewhere, but fails to realise that there are other characters between the exclamation mark and the rest of the sentence:

• He cried “Help!”, But nobody came.
• But - alas! - It was not so.
• Aged 104 (sic!), She began to play the piano.

It would be nicer if Publisher only looked at the last entered character and derived the end-of-sentence information from that, instead of looking at lots of other characters.

Andreas Weidner

PS: Mind that the second example uses hyphens, which are typographically nonsense there. With the correct n-dashes, the second part of the sentence is not capitalised...

[Patrick Connor]

Sorry.

Thank you for reporting a problem using the pre 1.8.0 beta builds. It appears that a member of the Affinity QA team didn't get round to fully investigating this specific report posted in the bugs forums. We are very sorry for this oversight. Yours is one of a number of reports that I am posting this apology to, using an automated script. 

Now we have released 1.8.3 on all platforms containing many hundreds of bug fixes, and we hope your problem has already been fully addressed. If you still have this problem in the 1.8.3 release build, then the QA team would really appreciate you reporting again it in the relevant Bugs forum.

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This thread has now been locked as the QA team are not following the threads to which this automatic reply is made, which is why we would appreciate a new bug report if you are still have this problem in the release build.