Thanks to both James and George for helping me with this. I've gone ahead and created code templates that pull up the characters effectively. The space issue is annoying but a great improvement over having to cut and paste or dig through the character map - and I needed something to implement right away. If however an "insert template" is added to oxygen at a later date, I will definitely use that! Thanks again, Dot On 5/16/07, James Cummings <James.Cummings@oucs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
George Cristian Bina wrote:
Hi James,
I see... I will log an enhancement request on our Jira to provide an action called for instance "Insert template" that will trigger the insertion of a template at the current position without looking for an already entered prefix. You should be able to set a shortcut for that and invoke it then type the template name to select it.
That would seem to be a very good way to do it. So you'd have the template but then have a shortcut key that called that. Any possibility that you could just define those shortcut keys when creating the template? (Rather than have to define the template, then go associate a key with calling it.)
Another possibility is to have a view showing all the templates and have some insert actions from that view at the current caret position.
Less convenient than just being able to map it to a keystroke I'd say, but might be helpful to see them I suppose.
Many thanks,
-James
-- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk
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