Hussein Shafie wrote: > John L. Clark wrote: > >> I think it would be useful if the XMLmind XML Editor (XXE) had a >> facility for remembering commonly used or inserted characters (from its >> 'Characters' panel) somewhere in the user interface.... > > This is a very good idea. It is too late to implement it for V2.10 but > you'll probably have it in V2.11.
There is an alternative, which would allow you the same facility not only in XXE, but also in all your other apps. Namely, an outside utility which would allow you to do the same thing. There is in fact an applet in MsWindows called "Character Map" that throws up a map of chars which can be copied into the clipboard, then pasted into any application. It includes (in XP at least) Unicode chars, allows you to choose the font, displays the keystroke for entering a selected char, etc. It's under Accessories | System Tools | Character Map in the Windows menu. What it doesn't provide out of your wish list, so far as I can tell, is the history of recently used chars. There may be free/shareware versions of such utilities, too, which might give you the history. Googling '"character map" freeware' revealed a number, such as PopChar (http://www.ergonis.com/products/popchar/index.php), Extended Character Map (http://www.alphabetsoup.net/free.shtml), etc. Be sure to do a virus scan... Another solution would be to make your own personal doc that contained all your frequently used chars in some order that makes sense to you (or even categorized hierarchically), then cut n' paste. Notepad (again, at least in XP) has Unicode capability, so it should work fine for such an application. There are also keyboard remapping programs that may provide some of the functionality you want (and would be easier than cutting and pasting, once you learned the keystrokes that you want). -- Mike Maxwell Linguistic Data Consortium maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu
