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Is there a text editor/notes app that adds Unicode symbols? (feddit.de)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For example, there is Material Notes which has a editor toolbar with bold, indented, ~~stroke~~, etc. But this is rendered, exported to json or syntax like Markdown. This app too, in which i write this on lemmy, does the same. We have ☐, ☒, •, ‣ in Unicode, 𝗕𝗼𝗹𝗱, 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡, s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵, so why not use this?

Basically, what i'm looking for is a text editor with toolbar/keystrokes for Android or Linux, which adds unicode symbols for rich text. It would make reading plain text notes/todo lists cross-device simpler. Yes, there's UnicodePad and Charmap but that's not the same.

edit: something where you mark a word, tap the B in the toolbar or press ctrl+b and it replaces the characters with uc bold characters, no? Tap the list button and it adds uc bullet points, etc...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This shouldn't be too hard to implement in Emacs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah, good old c-X M-c M-unicode...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It already is: C-x 8 RET

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Org-mode mostly does this already. Just needs a shortcut to surround the marked area with the correct symbols.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Org-mode is splendid and i use it almost every day, but i think what op is asking for is something different. If i want to write something like this:

s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵

i would use +stroke+ in Org-mode. If i then set org-hide-emphasis-markers to t, the + signs are hidden, but they are still there. If i save the file, and open it in another program, it is still +stroke+, instead of the unicode variant. The feature asked for was intended for the following use-case:

It would make reading plain text notes/todo lists cross-device simpler.

Which Org-mode would fail to deliver on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Export to latex (and to pdf)?