Special characters palette: suggestions

• Nov 6, 2015 - 16:04
Type
Functional
Frequency
Few
Severity
S5 - Suggestion
Status
closed
Regression
No
Workaround
No
Project
MuseScore

Nightly d45cc19 / Win 7.

A few suggestions for the new special characters palette:

1. Add an En dash (–) and Em dash (—) to the common symbols tab. These are used in English for parentheses, date ranges, and as an alternative to the colon. And an ellipsis (…) is also common, used for omissions in text.

2. The following symbols might be useful:

† Dagger
‡ Double dagger
‘ Left single quote
’ Right single quote
“ Left double quote
” Right double quote
• Bullet
§ Section
° Degrees sign
± Plus/minus
¹ Superscript 1
² Superscript 2
³ Superscript 3

3. Abreviate miscellaneous to misc.

4. Is it possible to have the unicode tab tooltips give a description of the symbol (as the Windows character map does), rather than just the unicode number?

5. In the unicode section is it possible to stop font categories displaying which are not installed?

Comments

• Nov 6, 2015 - 16:34

It seems to me that any character which is produced by my keyboard is readily written within texts.
I use a BÉPO keyboard under Ubuntu. This keyboard addresses a large number of character, but there is also the system character map and the ability to type the UTF-8 code.

I guess that similar possibility are available within other systems, and think that "our" characters palette should restrain to typically musical symbols

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Fix version
3.6.0