2011/4/22 Vamsi Kodali <[email protected]>: >> I'm thinking now on something more "complex", a sort of evolution from >> ComposeSpecialCharacter extension that can be called QuickSymbol: >> suppose a menu where you can select your more used symbols, put them >> on a table and assign to them an "alias", something like b for β, etc. >> Now, suppose that this QuickSymbol have a keyboard shortcut assigned, >> something like Alt+C: then, if you in the text type b and them press >> Alt+C the b is replaced by β. The main advantage from Compose... is, >> clearly, the ability to choose your own preferred symbols and to >> choose your preferred alias, so you do not need to rely on a >> predefined and not possible to edit replacement table full of symbols >> that you probably do not need. >> What do your think? > > Your idea is definitely more quicker than going to a menu and clicking on > buttons. In fact, my current workaround to insert frequently used symbols > quickly into a text is by utilizing the AutoCorrect options. The > ComposeSpecialCharacter and QuickSymbol approaches, although more > specialized, sound similar to the AutoCorrect method. > > But the problem with those approaches is that the user is required to > remember shortcuts and these features may be a little hard to discover. We > still keep the Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo buttons in spite of their popularity, > right? >
Right ;) But that does not means we do not have keyboard shortcuts. Maybe the ideal situation would be to implement both aspect: an easy symbol menu and an easy "insert my preferred symbols" method. Cheers Ricardo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
