Re: [Gnumed-devel] Text expansion

[Busser, Jim]

On 2013-04-02, at 10:21 AM, Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:15:36PM +0000, Jim Busser wrote:
> 
>>>> Allow sending key strokes like tab enter and input box 
>>>> through text expansion. This will further enhance text
>>>> expansion  
>>> 
>>> I am not sure I fully understand what you want.
>> 
>> I think the intention (which I agree could be useful)
>> would be to be able to include, in the text expansion,
>> characters others than alphanumeric and punctuation and, in
>> particular, the characters for tab and new line.
> 
> I do not understand what sort of limitation you seem to be
> referring to ?

Maybe I should wait for others to comment, since I did not yet attempt the use 
of text expansion.

Earlier in this thread, vbanait requested the ability to include such 
characters in a text expansion. I interpreted this to mean that expansions do 
not currently support such characters, but maybe that is wrong. Maybe they can 
be copied/pasted as part of a snippet, or maybe a special method is required to 
put them into the expansion.

The limitation that I I was referring to was a possible one that I was 
questioning, not a definite one...

I was asking whether the same text macro could be

1) invoked in the writing of a progress note, and
2) referenced inside a LaTex form

and if the strings inside the expansion would, in both cases, be compatible.

-- Jim