On 01/17/2011 07:43 PM, David wrote: > The "Characters" palette would be infinitely more useful if one were > able to search for a specific character name. >
That's right. That's why we also have command insertCharByName. See attached screenshot. Notice that this dialog box supports auto-completion. More info: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/insertCharByName.html > On OS X, check out UnicodeChecker ( > http://earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker ) for an example of how search > should work. > > If I were able to have a software pony, it'd be for this search > functionality to be in XXE. > By default, command insertCharByName is bound to "Esc n" (_n_ like _n_ame). See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/quickrefcard/quickrefcard-Mac-Letter.pdf Please type "Esc n" and you'll be able to pick a character by its commonly used entity name (e.g. mdash). ---- PS 1: Note that in the case of a DITA document, this command currently only displays mdash. This shortcoming has been addressed in the next release (v4.8, to be released next week). ---- PS 2: Did you know that the "Characters" palette has a "Favorites" feature which allows you to group the special characters you use the most. More information here: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/insertCharacterPane.html#favorites_palette
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