In fact, I liked your suggestions, but I still keep the opinion that OOo
could eliminate that kind of extra work for us.
David Black wrote:
Jerônimo, that was my exact point! The ASCII
equivalents are the sami in all the standard
typefaces. It is only when you are using special
typefaces, such as Symbol or Dingbats, etc. that you
have to go farther. If you didn't like my first
suggestion, OK! How about the old two window trick? If
your monitor is big enough, you can have your
workspace window cover most of the screen and the
Charmap window in a small section of the screen - just
big enough to read,
The only other suggestion I have is for someone at OOo
to have a 'Special Characters' button on the
formatting toolbar. The Button could have a dropdown
menu with a 'font' choice and a matrix with the
characters on it. Unfortunately, I don't code and I
doubt you want to wait until I learn. I know it might
seem a lot of work to use Charmap, but it gets pretty
quick, once you get used to it and you will also find
that you DO remember the alt+code combinations for the
most common symbols that you use. (Maybe even in spite
of yourself).
Hope this is of some use to you or someone.
Cheers. DB/
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--- Jerônimo Backes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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