Qownnotes: Symbols toolbar

[mrmotallebi]

Expected behaviour

Show a toolbar containing commonly used symbols that would insert the symbol after double-click. As a kind of workaround for math formulas and checkboxes.
It would make it much easier than typing Γ for Γ for example.

[pbek]

Thank you for your suggestion, but what are in your opinion "commonly used symbols" and why? I guess everyone would have a different answer..

You could do that yourself with the help of the scripting engine.

• one custom action per character that will be shown in the scripting toolbar: http://docs.qownnotes.org/en/develop/scripting/README.html#registering-a-custom-action
• each custom action writes one character to the note: http://docs.qownnotes.org/en/develop/scripting/README.html#write-text-to-the-note-text-edit

[pbek]

If you want to make that script customizable you can use http://docs.qownnotes.org/en/develop/scripting/README.html#registering-script-settings-variables so the user of the script can enter character pairs themselves...

Any ideas @Maboroshy?

[mrmotallebi]

Sorry I haven't had a look at the scripting options.

A more advanced feature would be to allow the user to customize these symbols, but what I thought up of was the one that are shown in MS Word for example.
Another use case would be to cover the checkbox requirement for tasks.

I'll have a look at scripting too and see if I can achieve it that way.
Thanks for all the work! It already a lovely software~

[pbek]

Thank you for your kind words.
You can do everything of that with the scripting engine and can even make it configurable so more users could use that script. We could add it to https://github.com/qownnotes/scripts.
Just ask if you need to know something.

[Maboroshy]

I could write a script that would make an insert button for each character in a user provided string. For example, you put a, b, cd to script options, and it would make buttons a, b and cd. It would work for any character in unicode table. Would it meet your request?

You can try yourself. String to buttons already implemented in my "List maker" script. Lines 45-49.

[Maboroshy]

Please check the new "Insert symbol buttons" script in repository.

[pbek]

It works great, @Maboroshy! You are awesome! Is that what you are looking for, @mrmotallebi?

[mrmotallebi]

Yes, perfect!
Thank you. I will close this issue now.