Date: prev next · Thread: first prev next last
2013 Archives by date, by thread · List index


On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 10:12:46 +0000
e-letter <inpost@gmail.com> wrote:

On 13/11/2013, Steve Gruspier <sgg3@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 fields such as
 > "Engineering" or "Physics".

Not a good idea; suppose 'ε' has different definitions for different
 disciplines. The dialogue window would have duplicates of each
 "special character" for each field because users would navigate to
the field of personal interest and ignore other fields of knowledge.

Actually, I like the idea. The current Special Characters dialog allows
you to choose a font and a subset. I'm not entirely sure how the subset
is derived (I'm really not that clued up on all the unicode
complexities), but they seem to be just a quick way to navigate the
large, complete list of characters.

It might be more useful to have another dropdown that lets you choose a
custom subset of characters, and only show that subset. Default subsets
could be things like "Engineering", "Maths", etc, and you could design
your own. Each subset would just have a list of which characters to
display.

Sounds simple enough (and useful) to me, and I'm not sure I agree
with e-letter's objection above, but as I said, I don't understand the
complexities of things like how changing the fonts might affect this,
etc, so perhaps there are technical hurdles to this.

Someone with more indepth knowledge care to comment on the feasability
of this?

Paul

-- 
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted

Context


Privacy Policy | Impressum (Legal Info) | Copyright information: Unless otherwise specified, all text and images on this website are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. This does not include the source code of LibreOffice, which is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPLv2). "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation" are registered trademarks of their corresponding registered owners or are in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries. Their respective logos and icons are also subject to international copyright laws. Use thereof is explained in our trademark policy.