Hi George, The only problem (as dot pointed out privately to me) with this as a solution to inputting funny characters quickly, is that code templates need a space in the editor before the letters you type. So I can't type 'with' and have the 'th' be part of the code template. I'd have to type 'wi th' and then delete the space. Another solution would to be to write a commandline java program to output the right characters and then attach a menu keyboard shortcut to generate each of them, but that seems a bit like overkill? -James George Cristian Bina wrote:
Hi James and Don,
Sure you can export/import code templates. On the Options->Preferences -- Editor -- Code Templates page there are two buttons Export and Import that allow you to share the templates with other users.
Note that oXygen has also support for project level options. This makes possible configuring a project that has some options already configured, including code templates, transformation scenarios, default schema associations, catalogs, etc. So basically you can create a project and set the options you want to be stored at project level, then you can share that project with other users that will see all the options you configured at project level when working with that project.
Best Regards, George --------------------------------------------------------------------- George Cristian Bina - http://aboutxml.blogspot.com/ <oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger http://www.oxygenxml.com
James Cummings wrote:
Dot Porter wrote:
Hello List,
I've been using oXygen for a couple of years but mainly for text encoding, I don't really take advantage of the more advanced functionality. I apologize for this newbie question and I hope the answer is simple.
I would really like to create shortcuts for some characters from the character map. There are three that I use often and it's a pain to have to cut and paste or use the character map every time I want to stick one in. I figured out how to set the menu shortcut keys and I was able to create a shortcut to bring up the c.m. but what I really want are shortcuts to insert the letters themselves. Any suggestions?
Hi Dot,
What I use is 'Code Templates'. For example you create a template called 'thorn' which has the content of:
รพ${caret}
(or the unicode character reference if you want), and then start typing th and then hit control-space.
Do similar with THORN (for capital), yogh/YOGH, etc. I suppose I could actually export these code templates and give them to you, but it is just really as easy for you to create them yourself if think.[1]
-James [1] My favourite characters, and probably some of yours, are listed http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jamesc/characters.html
-- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford James dot Cummings at oucs dot ox dot ac dot uk