Glyph (or character) selector
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Inkscape |
Fix Released
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Jon A. Cruz |
Bug Description
Hi.
Sometimes I need to insert some special characters (eg. diameter symbol, pi, etc.) into drawings made with Inkscape. It is really hard thing to do with Inkscape. I usually open Oppenoffice and insert desired characters using Openoffice "Insert special character" dialog and then copy needed symbols into Inkscape. There is an another way to deal with special characters, I mean to insert unicode codes directly with pressed ALT key but most of popular Linux window managers have ALT key binded to window management actions by default. So inserting symbols this way requires to reconfigure your window manager. Another weakness of inserting unicode codes with ALT key into inkscape is that an user must know the codes.
So I propose to implement a dialog for easy inserting of special characters.
There is an image attached to this report illustrating my idea.
Sorry for my poor english.
Related branches
summary: |
- Feature request: Improved text tool + Glyph (or character) selector |
Changed in inkscape: | |
assignee: | nobody → Jon A. Cruz (jon-joncruz) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
tags: |
added: fonts text ui removed: ui-text |
Changed in inkscape: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
It would be nice to have such a feature in Inkscape.
I also sometimes use Open Office for inserting special characters, and sometimes use unicode directly into Inkscape (if I know the code) but I use Shift + Ctrl + u + + + [unicode]. For example hold Shift and Ctrl and don't release while typing u+0074 to get letter "t". AFAIK Alt is the Windows modifier to insert unicode.