Sometimes in the templates of infoboxes, we need to add special character. But how to add it if the toolbox is not available. It would be nice enhancement to add it.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T85477 Allow to add special characters to infoboxes, citation templates, and other templates | |||
| Open | None | T52355 VisualEditor: Add support for editing templates' parameters as DOM elements ("visually"), including supporting nested templates | |||
| Stalled | None | T71870 Enable DOM editing of transclusion parameters | |||
| Declined | None | T85937 Parallelize template or template parameter expansion | |||
| Open | None | T76551 Provide support for multiple small surfaces with a shared toolbar (or something else?) | |||
| Open | None | T76550 Provide true nested, inheriting surfaces | |||
| Stalled | None | T49344 Internal nodes should eventually be in a separate document ("sub-documents") |
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For templates fields special characters can be inserted with normal keyboard shortcuts - e.g. on Mac Option+z for Ω.
But having a toolbox available when editing templates' fields will be helpful.
Comment Actions
This will be possible once T52355: VisualEditor: Add support for editing templates' parameters as DOM elements ("visually"), including supporting nested templates is complete.
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Many of these inputs should be VE surfaces (not plain text boxes) which would solve this issue in those cases (e.g. the special character inserter is available in the image caption editor).