So far the one thing that I miss is in profiles, where before I might see that somebody is a student, or claiming to be an engineer, or a Maker. Now that is gone, it appears.

Can you find the Information of the member whom you want to see the profile?

Like your Information is Other Engineer Type.

 

PLEASE give us back the tool to insert Greek and math symbols simply, without having to learn Latex or jump through other hoops. Those symbols are essential to many circuit discussions.

I've memorized the important ones, and it's much faster typing unicode than looking up symbols in a selection box.

See: https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0370.pdf

 

I've memorized the important ones

Would that I could .

 

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It seems that the buttons on the reply editor are all grayed out? I went to create a link and that didn’t work. Same for bolding text, Changing alignment, making a bulleted list, etc..,

 

Hello,

When all buttons are grayed out, you have pressed the last button "Toggle BB code", the wheel on the end.
When you pres it again, all will be normal.

Bertus

 

Hello,

When all buttons are grayed out, you have pressed the last button "Toggle BB code", the wheel on the end.
When you pres it again, all will be normal.

Bertus

Why the default function of all the buttons are not active as before?

 

Hello,

As far as I know, the buttons are activated.
The system seems to remember if you pressed the "Toggle BB code" button.

Bertus

 

Hello,

As far as I know, the buttons are activated.
The system seems to remember if you pressed the "Toggle BB code" button.

Bertus

Yup, that worked. Thanks!

Must’ve hit it by mistake...

 

PLEASE give us back the tool to insert Greek and math symbols simply, without having to learn Latex or jump through other hoops. Those symbols are essential to many circuit discussions.

I found the text editing tools far better than the Home depot product comment editing tools, at least 40dB better, really. And the lack of symbols and special characters is why I spell out a lot of things. I had not expected them to be available. So I will hold all comments about the changes until enough time has passed that I can know what I am talking about. So far, the big relief has been to know that it was something that I did wrong, or some malware getting ready to spring.

 

It seems that I had not been familiar with what needed to be changed, and I was not aware of flaws or defects. I have seen that folks were able to post files from programs that I was unable to open, but that was obviously my problem, not theirs, because it was the simulation programs that produced those files. so I do not complain about that.

I don't know anything about AAC's backend -- but I used to be responsible for some other servers and I hated every minute of it. So -- code bases evolve over time -- even if you don't add one bit of increased functionality to your website, the constant security releases, patches, upgrades of the underlying server software will break your website over time. So you constantly have to edit code / hack / patch your website software to try to keep your website working. It ends up being a kludge. At some point, either critical functions are deprecated or it's such a mess that it just makes sense to backup all the user information, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on everything else, and start brand new with the latest version of the software and begin the process of coding / hacking / patching all over again.

 

PLEASE give us back the tool to insert Greek and math symbols simply, without having to learn Latex or jump through other hoops. Those symbols are essential to many circuit discussions.

I miss that feature too, but found a workaround.

On the Mac, those symbols can be typed by a combination of the Alt/Option key and various other keyboard keys. Option + m gives the µ symbol; Option + z gives Ω; Option + p yields π; and so forth. I made a cheat sheet that lists various useful combinations.

That works OK, but I decided to go one step further: I changed the cheat sheet into a .html file and put a link to it in the bookmarks bar in Chrome. Now all I have to do is open that file in a separate tab, select and copy the special character I want, and then paste it into the AAC edit window.

The html code for this file is:

<HTML>
<CENTER>
<head><title>SYMBOLS</title></head>
<BR>
<BR>µ
<BR>π
<BR>√
<BR>Ω
<BR>∆
<BR>≈
<BR>≠
<BR>∞
<BR>•
<BR>÷
<BR>°
<BR>∑
<BR>Ø
<BR>™
</CENTER>
</HTML>

For me, this works as well as, or better than, the "S" symbol popup that we've been used to here.

 

I don't know anything about AAC's backend -- but I used to be responsible for some other servers and I hated every minute of it. So -- code bases evolve over time -- even if you don't add one bit of increased functionality to your website, the constant security releases, patches, upgrades of the underlying server software will break your website over time. So you constantly have to edit code / hack / patch your website software to try to keep your website working. It ends up being a kludge. At some point, either critical functions are deprecated or it's such a mess that it just makes sense to backup all the user information, hit Ctrl-Alt-Del on everything else, and start brand new with the latest version of the software and begin the process of coding / hacking / patching all over again.

M.H. , Thanks for the explanation. I am not a software person except for PLCs, and writing the functional requirements of code so that others can understand what a program must deliver. My presumption has been that "code does not break", nor does it wear out. And so I am suspecting that my assertion that the computer driven cars must be set with perfect code on day one is not asking for anything close to possible. But I would not want to own a car that needed 200+ Meg of fixes every week.

 

I just did the registry change to allow direct keyboard input of Unicode. It works for entering Greek letters and special symbols on this site and also in LibreOffice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input

1. Open Regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method
2. Create a new key of the String type (REG_SZ) named EnableHexNumpad
3. Set the value of the new key to a 1
4. Exit Regedit and reboot

When the machine comes back you can get the Greek letter alpha by holding the Alt key and typing + on the numeric keypad followed by 3B1 and you get --> α
If it works for you you have the whole Unicode character set.

 

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I just did the registry change to allow direct keyboard input of Unicode. It works for entering Greek letters and special symbols on this site and also in LibreOffice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input

1. Open Regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Input Method
2. Create a new key of the String type (REG_SZ) named EnableHexNumpad
3. Set the value of the new key to a 1
4. Exit Regedit and reboot

When the machine comes back you can get the Greek letter alpha by holding the Alt key and typing + on the numeric keypad followed by 3B1 and you get --> α
If it works for you you have the whole Unicode character set.

Funny. Linux understands Unicode by default.

You MS guys have no idea how limited your world is.

 

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Funny. Linux understands Unicode by default.

You MS guys have no idea how limited your world is.

Do you see a care in my left eye?
How about the right one?
How limited is being one dimensional?

 

OBW0549's solution is brilliant (in the classical sense)!

If you have trouble putting OBW0549's HTML code into a document with the extension "html", you might want to use a copy of it on the web. Perhaps somebody can find a more "permanent" hosting service.
cappels.org/symbols.html

 

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In both solutions, one needs to remember a code for the Greek letters. I just use alt+nnn on Win 7/Chrome and keep a cheat sheet in my drawer.

Here's a table of the codes (alt+236 = ∞ ):
Source: https://usefulshortcuts.com/alt-codes/greek-alt-codes.php

 

Another option is to copy and paste from Windows Character Map. I keep a shortcut to that on the taskbar.

 

I didn't even know there was a font symbol add-on as I used extended ASCII ALT-codes... Ω