Richard Heck wrote:

> On 10/25/2015 07:43 AM, Kornel Benko wrote:
>> Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2015 um 12:04:36, schrieb Georg Baum
>> <[email protected]>
>>> PhilipPirrip wrote:
>>>
>>>> LibreOffice has it as "Special Characters". Fedora Linux has an
>>>> application called "Character Map" that lists characters by, I believe,
>>>> unicode blocks.
>>>> And all those are just single characters. Symbols, though, can be one
>>>> or more: Greek alpha or \LaTeX
>>>> Just my 5 cents.
>>> After thinking more about this I now think it makes sense. I did also
>>> implement the documentation toolbar. I think the toolbar should
>>> definitely go in.
>> I like it.
> 
> Me too.
> 
>>> What do others think about the renaming?
>> Having this extra toolbar, I'd like to have the logos available also
>> under "Insert->Special Character->Logos->{LyX,TeX,LaTeX,LaTeX2e} Logo"
>>
>> I.e. new "Logos" submenu for the logos. Just my 1 cent.
> 
> This seems like an excellent idea.

I did this at d56980da954d.


>> "Special Character" itself feels OK. Maybe also "Special Symbols" ...
> 
> LibreOffice has Insert> Special Character, and that gets you to the
> dialog that our Insert> Special Character > Symbols... does. But we kind
> of break out some of the more common choices and put them on the
> submenu, so "Special Character" seems consistent to me. What makes less
> sense to me is that use of "Symbols..." for what gets you to the dialog.
> I think maybe "Symbol Chooser..." would make it clearer what this was
> going to do.

Since it looks like the majority wants to keep "Special Character", and 
there does not seem to be a consensus concerning "Symbols...", and changing 
the names would mean a lot of work in the docs, I do not want to change 
these two right now. Nevertheless, I'll consider bug 9626 now as fixed.


Georg

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