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…
If you know Javascript you could very easily write a plugin in Obsidian to do this. Just have the plugin replace any markdown with the Unicode equivalent on save.
Great question though, it’s actually making me wonder why this isn’t a thing in normal plain text editors!
Great question though, it’s actually making me wonder why this isn’t a thing in normal plain text editors!
Right? Why make the text editor Unicode capable but not implement this? Are we too stuck in the xml ways?
I doubt toolbars in a rich text editor specifically for Unicode symbols would be a thing, because…why?
There’s definitely VScode extensions that would show the glyphs or convert the actual unicode hex to whatever it should be.
I mean with rich text, text with bold, indent, etc., not a specific markup. On the contrary, i want to replace markup with native Unicode symbols.
You probably want a code editor then.
No.Ah, you meant implement it myself? Well, maybe in a few years, i have a gazilion other things to work on.
No, like VScode or similar. That’s probably where you’re going to find a feature like this.
SublimeText with this plugin: https://github.com/mvoidex/UnicodeMath
Despite the name, it works for all Unicode characters :)
Ah damn, proprietary.
And looks like it only pastes? I make an edit.
s̵t̵r̵o̵k̵e̵
Because it doesn’t look like
stroke.I’m trying to upload a picture of what it looks like on my phone but it won’t work. The lines don’t connect between characters. The line in the e seems to either be missing or not present at all. The k is barely visible and I didn’t notice it at first.
That said… I do with there was a way to do this easily in more programs without searching online for “Unicode font converter” to be able to get 𝖘𝖙𝖚𝖋𝖋 𝖑𝖎𝖐𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘.
