[silva-dev] A Typographical Characters service

[Andy Altepeter]

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 09:12 am, Andy Altepeter wrote:
> Hi Developers,
>

I've just released a SilvaDocumentPatches product, which contains this 
Typographical Characters service I was talking about.  If you think it'd be 
useful and want to try it out, please pull it from my zope members page:

http://www.zope.org/Members/aaltepet/SilvaDocumentPatches

cheers,
Andy


> A question was recently posed to me about adding the copyright character
> (©) to the 'Typographical Characters' tool in kupu.  So I thought: why
> not have a Typographical Characters service that stores these useful
> non-keyboard chars?  With a service like this, site-admins can easily add
> chars, and developers can easily make this list available in their own
> products as well as in the forms-based editor.
>
> So, while working on a refactor and upgrade of our silva-based cms, I wrote
> a service for this purpose.  It requires a modification to the typo chars
> tool in kupu, as well as small modifications to the various editor widgets
> (another li in the notes panel).
>
> Ultimately, I feel that this feature is useful beyond just my university's
> cms, so I'm wondering if something like this could eventually be included
> in Silva (like v1.3 or beyond)?
>
> If infrae feels this would be useful, I'll be more than happy to provide a
> patch and instructions on installing.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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