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. [...] I > know that I often use some greek characters, some special > punctuation, some arrows, and a few mathematical symbols quite > often, and I'd love to have a single palette for this handy Unicode > subset. > > As an added bonus, it'd be great to have a way to assign a keyboard > shortcut to insert a (user-defined) few specific characters. [...]
A dynamically generated character insertion menu might be quite useful, and I am grateful to Hussein for instantly having promised it for V. 2.11. In the meantime, if you would like to give a static character menu a try, you can use the configuration that I announced on Sep 14, 2004 in Vol. 7, Issue 11 of this list, and take it as a starting point for your own character menu. Just unzip the attached configuration module and add to your XXE configuration file: <include location="path/to/charactermenu.incl" /> Hussein's way of entering characters by using the function insertCharByName is surely also a good thing. The character insertion menu, however, provides: - Organization of the characters in groups, so you can easily find the character you desire instead of having to know its DocBook entity name beforehand. - "Visually controlled" character selection: the character itself is shown, next to its entity name, in the menu option. - Keyboard shortcuts "walking you through the menu until the character", while also allowing use of mouse or arrow keys etc. - Presentation of only the characters from a logical grouping, while insertCharByName shows all characters from the DocBook XML named character entity declarations, corresponding (roughly) to those in ISO/IEC DTR 9573 (2003). (See http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/overview.html for more info.) Remarks and suggestions on the character menu are welcome. Yves -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: charactermenu.zip Type: application/zip Size: 3592 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/xmleditor-support/attachments/20050519/ea275e89/attachment.zip
