On 2.10.2014 8:55, Alex Jitianu wrote:
As current workarounds, other than the already mentioned code templates, I can also think of: - the "Insert from Character Map..." dialog. The action is available in the Edit menu. You can use it to insert the needed "dash" elements. There is also a "Symbols" toolbar that presents the recently used characters. So the "dash" characters will be just one click away (maybe two).
Yes, but this is too slow if such characters has to be typed often.
- in the Author page (if this editing mode is an option), you can define author actions, each one inserting a specific "dash". You can associate shortcuts to these actions of add them in the toolbar, menu etc.
Yes, this is what I did for now, I have mapped Ctrl+Shift+minus to insert fragment action. But direct support for typing just several "-" strokes would be nicer as I'm used to this from TeX and Emacs input mode.
We have some future plans to add proper Auto-correction support in Oxygen (with more than em-dash insertion) by using the auto-correct rule files which are bundled with Open Office. Maybe we'll find some time to implement this in an Oxygen 17.x release next year. Probably this auto-correct will initially be available only in the Author visual editing mode.
That would be nice. Also it makes sense to have a list of elements where auto-corrections will not be active even in Author mode. Imagine writing computer book -- you don't want to change dashes and quotes to other characters inside elements like programlisting and code (in DocBook). Thanks and have a nice day, Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------