RE: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-23 Thread David Gast
showed something like blank;blank;100 . Best regards, David Gast From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster [webmas...@krackedpress.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 15:05 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-23 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
blank;blank;100 . Best regards, David Gast From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster [webmas...@krackedpress.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 15:05 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special

RE: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:48 23/11/2013 +, David Gast wrote: On a recent test, I noticed that the HTML blank; entities did not get changed when inserting, ... Could that be because blank; is not an HTML entity?! That is, the Writer document showed something like blank;blank;100 . An HTML principle is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Brian Barker
At 01:37 22/11/2013 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: When I was in grade school, over 60 years ago, lb. meant pound(s). That's only for pounds Avoirdupois (and it's lb, not lb.), of course. Pounds Sterling is £. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 11/21/2013 01:59 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: David Gast wrote: I have two ideas. Interestingly, Windows Vista's Character Map utility (and probably also Windows 7's?) has similar ideas... 1. Highlight the categories, so it is easy to tell where the category starts and ends. Vista's

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Doug wrote: On 11/21/2013 02:00 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Then there are the younger users that know # only as hash-tag and not pound-sign. Yes many of the standard characters have different names depending on the languages used. In the UK, # is more commonly

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 11/21/2013 01:59 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: David Gast wrote: I have two ideas. Interestingly, Windows Vista's Character Map utility (and probably also Windows 7's?) has similar ideas... 1. Highlight the categories, so it is easy to tell where the category

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread James Knott
Mark Bourne wrote: I always think of # as being a sharp sign. The musical sharp symbol is slightly different: ♯ Yeah, it is a bit flat to be a sharp sign. ;-) I've always known it as a number sign. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Mark Bourne
Ruth Ann wrote: OT maybe, but does anyone know the name for @ ? Something I have been trying to discover for years :-) Ruth Ann, Cincinnati, OH USA It depends who you ask, and in what language ;o) Unicode calls it commercial at. The article about it on Wikipedia is titled At sign, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Virgil Arrington
The recorded voicemail messages (at least here in the U.S.), always instruct us to press the pound key. Virgil -Original Message- From: James Knott Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:23 PM To: LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Steve Edmonds
: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:23 PM To: LibreOffice Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters Mark Bourne wrote: I always think of # as being a sharp sign. The musical sharp symbol is slightly different: ♯ Yeah, it is a bit flat to be a sharp sign

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 11/22/2013 01:20 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 11/21/2013 01:59 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: David Gast wrote: I have two ideas. Interestingly, Windows Vista's Character Map utility (and probably also Windows 7's?) has similar ideas... 1. Highlight the categories,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread John Meyer
On 11/21/2013 11:37 PM, Doug wrote: I always think of # as being a sharp sign I always think of a tic-tac-toe game. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-22 Thread Dale Erwin
On 11/22/2013 1:34 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Ruth Ann wrote: OT maybe, but does anyone know the name for @ ? Something I have been trying to discover for years :-) Ruth Ann, Cincinnati, OH USA It depends who you ask, and in what language ;o) Unicode calls it commercial at. The article about it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Then there are the younger users that know # only as hash-tag and not pound-sign. Yes many of the standard characters have different names depending on the languages used. In the UK, # is more commonly known as hash or number sign. For us, pound sign usually

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-21 Thread Mark Bourne
David Gast wrote: I have two ideas. Interestingly, Windows Vista's Character Map utility (and probably also Windows 7's?) has similar ideas... 1. Highlight the categories, so it is easy to tell where the category starts and ends. Vista's character map has an option to group by Unicode

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-21 Thread Mark Bourne
Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Then there are the younger users that know # only as hash-tag and not pound-sign. Yes many of the standard characters have different names depending on the languages used. In the UK, # is more commonly known as hash or number sign. For us, pound sign usually

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-21 Thread Doug
On 11/21/2013 02:00 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: Then there are the younger users that know # only as hash-tag and not pound-sign. Yes many of the standard characters have different names depending on the languages used. In the UK, # is more commonly known as hash

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-18 Thread anne-ology
, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters To: users@global.libreoffice.org At 17:35 16/11/2013 +, Toki Jonathon Kantoor wrote: Under what circumstances would one be using glyphs they know not the name of? Many people do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-18 Thread Dries Feys
] Feature Request - Categories for special characters To: users@global.libreoffice.org At 17:35 16/11/2013 +, Toki Jonathon Kantoor wrote: Under what circumstances would one be using glyphs they know not the name of? Many people do not know the name ampersand. No-one knows what @ is called

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-18 Thread anne-ology
the more things change, the more they stay the same ;-) This is quite an interesting list; thanks for sharing. From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com Date: Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-16 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 11/15/2013 05:17 PM, Paul wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:34:33 -0500 Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 11/15/2013 01:19 PM, Paul wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:06:05 + jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds simple enough (and useful) to me, and I'm

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-16 Thread jonathon
On 11/15/2013 10:17 PM, Paul wrote: That still doesn't make any sense. What is this theoretical 2000 page maximum? Unicode allows for 1,114,112 different glyphs, excluding variants. with variants, you are looking at roughly 1,750,000 glyphs. And why would the glyph's position be known?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-16 Thread jonathon
On 11/16/2013 08:17 PM, Paul wrote: Unicode allows for 1,114,112 different glyphs, excluding variants. with variants, you are looking at roughly 1,750,000 glyphs. And so... how does this relate to 2000 pages? The largest currently available Pan-Unicode font contains roughly 100,000 glyphs.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-16 Thread Paul
On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 21:59:04 + jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/16/2013 08:17 PM, Paul wrote: Taking, thorn, for example, with the current setup, one knows to look in the Runic range. You might, but that doesn't mean everybody does. Only if one has paid absolutely no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-15 Thread jonathon
Sounds simple enough (and useful) to me, and I'm not sure I agree with e-letter's objection above, Instead of the current theoretical maximum of 2000 page to search for a rarely used glyph, whose position is known, you'd have to search through 25000 pages for a glyph whose position is both

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 11/15/2013 01:19 PM, Paul wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:06:05 + jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds simple enough (and useful) to me, and I'm not sure I agree with e-letter's objection above, Instead of the current theoretical maximum of 2000 page to search for a rarely

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-15 Thread Paul
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:34:33 -0500 Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: On 11/15/2013 01:19 PM, Paul wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 18:06:05 + jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds simple enough (and useful) to me, and I'm not sure I agree with e-letter's

RE: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-15 Thread David Gast
From: Regina Henschel [rb.hensc...@t-online.de] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 07:55 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters Hi Steve, Steve Gruspier schrieb: Hello: I was wondering if this was the place

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-14 Thread e-letter
On 13/11/2013, Steve Gruspier s...@alfred.edu wrote: Hello: I was wondering if this was the place to request a feature. I was Perhaps as discussion, then submit via bugzilla. thinking the Special Character section is very cluttered. My feature request is a setting that would narrow

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-14 Thread Paul
On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:12:46 + e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/11/2013, Steve Gruspier s...@alfred.edu wrote: thinking the Special Character section is very cluttered. My feature request is a setting that would narrow down special characters to ones that are used in specific

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-14 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 11/13/2013 04:28 PM, Steve Gruspier wrote: Hello: I was wondering if this was the place to request a feature. I was thinking the Special Character section is very cluttered. My feature request is a setting that would narrow down special characters to ones that are used in specific fields

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-14 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Steve, Steve Gruspier schrieb: Hello: I was wondering if this was the place to request a feature. I was thinking the Special Character section is very cluttered. My feature request is a setting that would narrow down special characters to ones that are used in specific fields such as

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-14 Thread Doug
On 11/14/2013 10:55 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Steve, Steve Gruspier schrieb: Hello: I was wondering if this was the place to request a feature. I was thinking the Special Character section is very cluttered. My feature request is a setting that would narrow down special characters to ones