I know you can do all of that work, and that you end up used with it.
But the problem is to use various special characters, with various
typefaces. That's the pain. If you need to change the typeface, then you
need to search in that enormous list of characters to find what is the
char you need. Then, you need another char, in other typeface... and you
have the same work. And when you need more than 20 special chars to use,
in different typefaces, you can't remember all the ascii equivalents.
Also, you need to remember the correct typeface for every different
sequence. Man, nothing is better than put all the chars you need to
another file, copy from there and paste on your text whenever you need.
But a special panel that could list the chars used and remember all the
font configuration of every special char would be a hand in the wheel (I
don't know if that expression - hand in the wheel - means "great help"
as is does in portuguese. Does it? At least I tried... : )
David Black wrote:
An interesting conversation. Yes, I realize that
qa-dev has many projects ongoing and I also realize
that not everyone uses windows or Mac OS's and, yes
I'm Linus challenged. Still and all, I very often
require special characters for my writing, so I have
moved Windows Character Map (Charmap) onto my start
button. (I have also done the equivalent in Mac,but it
was a while ago).
When you need a special character, I bring up Charmap
and, for whatever font (actually it is really called
'typeface') I'm using, I simply click on the
character, click 'Select,' then go back to my script
and paste.
However...if the character is one that I use a lot, I
check to see what its ASCII equivalent is = for
example,
the elipsis … is alt+0133, the degree symbol is
alt+0176, e grave is alt+0233, e circumflex is
alt+0234, e acute is alt+0235., You need remember only
a few strategic alt+ combinations as the same
combinations work for all typefaces, except dingbats,
symbol and a few other special sets.
I kknow it sounds like work, but trust me - it
ain't!!!
--- Jerônimo Backes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yep, that's a great thing to create replacements.
Thanks, it was a great
help. BUT, it rouse up a little issue: you can't do
that (at least I
couldn't) with different fonts. Example: I'm writing
with Times New
Roman, but the special character needed is in the
Symbol font set. The
character representation is changed to a letter,
corresponding to a char
in Times New Roman... so all the characters in
Symbol, and in any other
font sets can't be used.
But it was yet a great help. Thanks.
CPHennessy wrote:
On Thursday 18 August 2005 19:44, Jerônimo Backes
wrote:
Hello there. I don't know if I came to the right
place, but I'll give a
suggestion for a little improvement in OO Writer:
What about to create a panel with the special
characteres utilized in
the text? It's a pain in the ass to write a text
with a lot of symbols,
and to every symbol you need, you have to click on
"Insert", then
"Special Character", then select the char needed.
Up to now I copy and
paste every symbol to another text document, and
whenever I need one of
these symbols, I copy from there to my text. It
will be extremely
helpful to have a list of special characters used
in the text, then just
click on the entry needed and have it from the
cursor.
What about that? I think it isn't hard to
implement.
Thanks for the idea. It indeed may not be hard to
implement. However please
remember that there are many other things which the
developers are working on
and which we hope will be released soon. Maybe your
request can be
implemented sometime in the future.
However there is another way to get what you want
now, if you use AutoCorrect
there is a tab there which allows you to define
your own replacements so that
you can define "a/" as an a-grave, etc.
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