[oXygen-user] Easy insertion of en/em-dash

[Alex Jitianu]

Hello,

Personally I'm not aware of such a plugin, but I think that one can 
indeed be implemented (and sounds like a nice idea).

As current workarounds, other than the already mentioned code templates, 
I can also think of:
- the "Insert from Character Map..." dialog. The action is available in 
the Edit menu. You can use it to insert the needed "dash" elements. 
There is also a "Symbols" toolbar that presents the recently used 
characters. So the "dash" characters will be just one click away (maybe 
two).
- in the Author page (if this editing mode is an option), you can define 
author actions, each one inserting a specific "dash". You can associate 
shortcuts to these actions of add them in the toolbar, menu etc.

Best regards,
Alex
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Alex Jitianu
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On 10/1/2014 8:39 PM, Cwiklowski, Don wrote:
>
> I use the standard keyboard shortcut of Alt+0151, but I'd love to see 
> en-dashes and em-dashes added to the Entities tab.
>
> I also tried added them in the code templates, and while it does work, 
> it gives them the appearance of being actual elements, rather than 
> character entities.
>
> Thanks,
>
> DC
>
> Message: 1
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> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:12:27 +0200
>
> From: Jirka Kosek < <mailto:>>
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> To:  <mailto:>
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> Subject: [oXygen-user] Easy insertion of en/em-dash
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> Hi,
>
> good text content should properly use en-dash and em-dash characters.
>
> Easy way to type them would be similar to how auto-correction work in 
> some editors:
>
> Typed characters => output
>
> -      => -
>
> --     => ? (en-dash)
>
> ---    => ? (em-dash)
>
> ----   => - (cycle back to hyphen and so on)
>
> Has already someone implemented this as a pluging? Or would it be 
> possible to provide this feature directly in oXygen, probably as a 
> part of existing auto-corrections?
>
> If answer is no, I will do it myself, but I thought that I would ask 
> first :-)
>
> TIA,
>
> Jirka
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