Issue 81136

Summary:	provide easier font selection of insert->special character
Product:	Writer	Reporter:	macias <bluedzins>
Component:	editing	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 2.2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description macias 2007-08-29 17:47:40 UTC

1) for the first time of insert->special character please always preselect the 
current font (from the main editor)
2) please provide in the "special character" dialog the meta-name for the 
font "Current" and make it the first entry in the list

This way it would be really easy to add not-so-special characters (e.g. french 
quotes) and continue writting, but also it would be possible to keep current 
behaviour (dialog remembers last font selection, which is good).

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2007-08-30 09:01:33 UTC

Reassigned to requirements.

Comment 2 nmailhot 2007-08-30 09:07:03 UTC

1. under unix systems it'd be great if the OO.o specific insert->special
character dialog was dumped in favour of integration with the system charmap app
(gucharmap probably)

2. @macias: you can get easy convenient access to French quotes under X11 by
using the fr(oss) of fr(latin9) keyboard maps. They use the <insert ISO number
of canadian spec there> standard postion at altgr+w/altgr+x. If you google a bit
you may even find windows ports of the same layouts (though as a rule they lag a
bit, and are not 100% identical to the xkeyboard-config layouts)