Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- Subject: Re: What's STILL wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 09:35:52 -0500
How about the ability to automatically switch the keyboard layout when a
user chooses the Symbol font? Surely something like this must be
possible? It could maybe be implemented by checking to see if a font
doesn't have any characters typed by the current keyboard layout, and if
so to switch to the layout in which the key typed is valid...
On Friday, June 28, 2002, at 05:50 AM, Ondra Cada wrote:
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 11:58 , Charles Srstka wrote:
But it is very important to have an easy and intuitive way to type
non-standard characters into a text document...
Nobody argues this.
But it does *absolutely nothing* to do with fonts; it's a question of
having (a) a good keyboard support, (b) a good support for switching
them,
(c) a good support for defining one's own, (d) a good support for
extra input methods (like "pop up a window containing a complete
charset and select whant you want to").
As for (a) and (c), Apple had it in the NeXTStep keyboard support and
Keyboard.app application, but for reasons utterly incomprehensible
abandoned it in favour of many times worse OS9-based thing (to define
your own keyboard in OSX you have to be a very experienced resource
wizard with root access -- no newbie ever can do that).
As for (b), there was a nice support in NeXTStep too, avaialable for
programmers -- I was one of those who have written a gUI over it,
including such things as automatically switching keyboards regarding
which application is active and more. So far as I know, I can't do this
for OSX.
As for (d), the support is there for programmers. Well, I think Apple
should provide a nice Input Manager itself (not just a programmer's
demo which allows you to enter hex unicode, but a full-featured thing
allowing to search for characters and define one's own pages with
favourite ones, built and bundled in standard OSX installation.
Nevertheless, if they don'
t, any programmer can -- if I needed that (which I don't), or if
somebody ordered it, I can do it easily myself. The keyword is Input
Manager.
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Ondra Cada
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