Barbara Dreyer
Please consider providing wysiwyg support for inserting special characters such as symbols and entities in articles without the need to apply HTML markup in the Code View editor.
For example:
* Em Dash
* En Dash
* Copyright
* Registered
* Section
* Ellipsis
and more
(Note: An EN dash is not the same thing as a hyphen and it’s used for a very different purpose.)
Currently, it’s only possible to add them in Code View (or hope that copy/paste from a third-party app such as Word would actually work in Doc360).
These symbols are not available on a standard keyboard.
HTML has entities that can be added in Code View. But not all users know how to do this. It’s also time-consuming because it requires looking up the entity from a third-party web site such as https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_symbols.asp. It is also error-prone.
Please consider enhancing the wysiwyg editor to include an Insert > Symbol feature (similar to MS Word) where it would be possible to quickly and easily insert the entity visually. In MS Word, these entities are added to content via Insert > Symbol, where users can select different character sets based on a font selection. There is also a standard default list of common used symbols, such as EN and EM dash.
Thanks!
January 31, 2024