A_B_C Posted November 17, 2019 Share Posted November 17, 2019 Hi there, this is a usability suggestion regarding the Glyph Browser. I think it is pretty unfortunate that you adhere to categorising glyphs by Unicode Blocks rather than by script families or similar conceptual schemes that make more sense. Take Polytonic Greek, for instance. If somebody wants to enter a word like ὀξύμωρος using the Glyph Browser, he or she will have to switch Unicode Blocks twice (at least, if you want to “type” the word continuously). See my video. For the occasional entering of Polytonic Greek through the Glyph Browser, this is a nuisance. Indesign has a much better solution. When you select Greek from the Glyph Browser categories menu, you will be presented a consolidated section of all Greek Unicode Blocks, i.e. Greek and Coptic and Greek Extended. With fonts such as the Brill typeface that are intended for philological work, even Ancient Greek Numbers (uni10140 – uni1018F) and similar are consolidated into the Greek category. It is rather odd or not to have all Greek glyphs consolidated together. Remember, the overall structure of Unicode isn’t overly logical from a usability point of view. Some say it’s a historically grown mess. And the same goes for mathematical signs etc. etc. … please make sure that all these are logically grouped together. And don’t be afraid to copy a solution that is obviously better. If you can come up with a still better solution, that’s even better. But the current categorisation isn’t really useful. Thanks for considering, Alex Oxumoros.mov kenmcd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 Finding and entering glyphs from Glyph browser can be cumbersome. For example why multiplication sign is not a mathematical operator? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 5 hours ago, Fixx said: Finding and entering glyphs from Glyph browser can be cumbersome. For example why multiplication sign is not a mathematical operator? Because the multiplication symbol existed before Unicode, and is part of an older set of characters in the older iso-8859-1 encoding. And because Serif chose to use the character layout chosen by the Unicode Consortium, who restricted the "Mathematical Operators" section of the layout to those symbols that weren't already defined someplace else in the encoding scheme. A_B_C 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Yes, that’s precisely the explanation for it. And a pretty accurate problem description at the same time. walt.farrell and Fixx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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