Simon Albrecht: > On 22.01.2016 13:00, Simon Albrecht wrote: > > On 22.01.2016 11:12, David Kastrup wrote: > >> Simon Albrecht <simon.albre...@mail.de> writes: > >>> On 22.01.2016 02:13, Dan Eble wrote: > >>>>> text-replacements: add ä and the like > >>>>> Provides aliases auml,Auml,ouml,Ouml,uuml,Uuml > >>>>> They were wanted by a user, so why not provide them? > >>>> I don’t want my observation to hold back this change if everyone > >>>> else likes it, but this looks like a slippery slope. > >>> What’s the danger that you see? > >> There is a whole lot of character entities in Unicode. Several hundreds > >> of thousands I think. > > Of course, but 99,9% of them are much less common than äöü. The > > current set provided seems somewhat arbitrary anyway. > >>> The alternative would be to deprecate using this input method. > >> Why? > > Well, if a user wants to use ä in his lyrics, but there is no > > text-replacements alias, then text-replacements won’t be an option > > anymore. Currently, it’s in no usable state for languages like > > Swedish and German. And if somebody without ü on their keyboard wants > > to type in German lyrics, then ü is probably the easiest way to > > get it, unless they use an IDE like Frescobaldi, with a ‘Special > > characters’ panel, where it might only require one click. But then > > they wouldn’t need text-replacements anyway. > > How should I (and James) interpret the silence here? Any more opinions?
I'd welcome this smallish addition. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
