Re: [Serna] More convenient "Insert Symbol" dialogue

Hello Hedley,

Thank you for your suggestions. They are added into our 
future-release-feature list.

Thank you.
Regards,
Daria Chernova

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Hedley Finger wrote:

>
> I would like to leave the "Insert Symbol" dialogue open most of the time, but 
> it just gets in the way.  Result: it is constantly opened and closed.  What 
> about a minimise/restore button on the title bar or perhaps turning it into a 
> dockable palette?
>
> It could do with some other improvements:
>
> @ Add typographic spaces such as thin, mid, thick, en, and em quads as pale 
> blue rectangles
> @ Display the glyph name, either the PostScript name if there is one or the 
> Unicode name when a glyph is clicked.  This would be especially helpful with 
> typographic dashes, such as en dash, em dash, 2-em dash, and hyphen.  In some 
> fonts these are very similar in length and it becomes hard to distinguish 
> them. Gentium appears to have two en rules and two em rules, for example 
> (could be a font bug).
> @ Show the Unicode number of a glyph when it is clicked.
> @ Allow the user to re-order the glyphs in the Favorites grid.
> @ Allow the user to insert the first ten Favorites glyphs by pressing Ctrl-0, 
> etc. when the symbols dialogue has focus.
> @ Allow the user to customise the dialogue so that particular sections can be 
> grouped together conveniently.  At the moment, I use Latin A glyphs 
> exclusively but have to scroll down way past Khmer Symbols to get to General 
> Punctuation!  And it would be nice to also group Maths symbols with the other 
> two.
>
> Alternatively, allow the user to choose between the Serna symbol dialogue and 
> the platform's supported glyph map, the Character Map in the case of Windows. 
> The Character Map in Windows implements a number of these ideas.
>
> Regards,
> Hedley
>
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