Re: [libreoffice-design] A picker for symbols

2011/4/22 Vamsi Kodali <vmskdl@gmail.com>:
> > I'm thinking now on something more "complex", a sort of evolution from
> > ComposeSpecialCharacter extension that can be called QuickSymbol:
> > suppose a menu where you can select your more used symbols, put them
> > on a table and assign to them an "alias", something like b for β, etc.
> > Now, suppose that this QuickSymbol have a keyboard shortcut assigned,
> > something like Alt+C: then, if you in the text type b and them press
> > Alt+C the b is replaced by β. The main advantage from Compose... is,
> > clearly, the ability to choose your own preferred symbols and to
> > choose your preferred alias, so you do not need to rely on a
> > predefined and not possible to edit replacement table full of symbols
> > that you probably do not need.
> > What do your think?
>
> Your idea is definitely more quicker than going to a menu and clicking on buttons. In fact, my 
> current workaround to insert frequently used symbols quickly into a text is by utilizing the 
> AutoCorrect options. The ComposeSpecialCharacter and QuickSymbol approaches, although more 
> specialized, sound similar to the AutoCorrect method.
>
> But the problem with those approaches is that the user is required to remember shortcuts and 
> these features may be a little hard to discover. We still keep the Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo 
> buttons in spite of their popularity, right?

Right ;) But that does not means we do not have keyboard shortcuts.
Maybe the ideal situation would be to implement both aspect: an easy
symbol menu and an easy "insert my preferred symbols" method.
Cheers
Ricardo

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