A list of commonly used special characters should be used to fill the special character's favourites list, as it is a presets list.
Here are group button presets from other apps. MS Word - http://i.imgur.com/GiyojNv.png WPS Writer - http://i.imgur.com/05A02N9.png Wordperfect - http://i.imgur.com/gsxv8a3.png The preset choices seem to mainly contain currency symbols (euro, pound, yen), copyright/trademark symbols (™, ©, Ⓡ), mathematical symbols (±, ≤, ≠), greek symbols (⍺, π, Σ), emoticons (😃, 😊), and bullet characters (bullet, checkmark, arrow).
Drawback would be that the user needs to delete a predefined favorite before she can add own. So we definitely should keep the number below 16.
My take: * €, $, ¥, £ (some currencies are usually on the keyboard but not all; german layout has € and $ but not pound or yen; could make sense to take ¢ instead of yen) * Φ, Σ, Ψ, Ω (Greek is not only useful for mathematicians) * ∞, ‰, †, ‡ (some examples, conservative in respect to the font; daggers for scientific use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(typography); most other characters are substituted from input, e.g. (c) And as said before I wouldn't add more to allow users adding own chars without the need to delete.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > My take: > * €, $, ¥, £ (some currencies are usually on the keyboard but not all; > german layout has € and $ but not pound or yen; could make sense to take ¢ > instead of yen) > * Φ, Σ, Ψ, Ω (Greek is not only useful for mathematicians) > * ∞, ‰, †, ‡ (some examples, conservative in respect to the font; daggers > for scientific use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(typography); most > other characters are substituted from input, e.g. (c) > > And as said before I wouldn't add more to allow users adding own chars > without the need to delete. Latest variant is now ₠,¥,£,₪ Φ,Σ,Ψ,Ω ∞,😃,†,‡
Akshay Deep committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=fc096827ea9fee79c27e07db040c6aed2b5d9ffd tdf#111775 - Default list of favourite special characters It will be available in 6.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Thanks for the patch Akshay, but additional work needs to be done to finalize the list.
Jay suggested on Telegram to have the Euro and the copyright signs as defaults. Agreeing with € as his layout doesn't contains it but copyright is more easily entered as (C). Akshay should finalize the other topics, we can easily adjust the favs list ourselves.
One character that comes into my mind is an arrow to the right direction: U+2192 I assume. That's what we often use in documents at work.
Is it worth adding this to the Release Notes? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 Then we'll remember to mention it in the press release / videos, if it makes sense to do so...
(In reply to Mike Saunders from comment #9) > Is it worth adding this to the Release Notes? > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0 > > Then we'll remember to mention it in the press release / videos, if it makes > sense to do so... It's part of the GSoC project on Special Characters (which should definitely get announced by video), and Akshay wanted to add his achievements to the release notes (https://akkidevblog.wordpress.com/). The finalized list of favorite chars is not that relevant as it's our best guess what most users benefit from.
heiko tietze committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=15790025c8ac2fe659f458cffc0d72a79089074e tdf#106988 Default favorite characters It will be available in 6.0.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Created attachment 137446 [details] New favorites list in current 6.0.0 alpha1 master
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