Quick Accent additional symbols

[TCanDoS]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Thank you for all yall's work! I love the application. Had a suggestion I hope yall would consider.

When using the Quick Accent tool, it appears that most of the odd ball symbols are grouped together under the comma/less than key. Requesting the addition of the degree symbol ° to that grouping. Additionally, perhaps the half (½), quarter (¼), & three quarters (¾) could populate with the number key shortcuts based on their denominator.

Scenario when this would be used?

As a mechanical/electrical project manager in commercial & industrial construction, temperature differentials come up constantly. I should probably have the Alt codes memorized for degree by now, but I find it's not much harder to pull up a quick browser tab, search, copy, & paste. However, I've incorporated the Quick Accent tool into my workflow easy enough that adding more symbols to quick accent should be an easy muscle memory retrain & time savings.

Supporting information

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[Jay-o-Way]

@damienleroy there are a number of (similar) requests like this - you already know my thoughts about it. Did you have an issue or a doc speficically for what is and what is not the goal for Quick Accent? Reference: damienleroy/PowerAccent#44 and damienleroy/PowerAccent#23

[Jay-o-Way]

@TCanDoS the question is understandable, but I do have to ask: why not use the text-tab from the Emoji Panel to search/insert special characters?

[damienleroy]

@Jay-o-Way I don't.
And yes we have a lot of request like this, for any mathematical symbol. For PowerAccent it is something I continue thinking, but it is clearly not my priority for now.
But for me the future of this is too uncertain (depend of a lot of things, technical as functional to work), and so we can close the tickets related to this feature. I will try to write a sentence to put in the README.md

[Jay-o-Way]

will try to write a sentence to put in the README.md

Yes please, that will be very helpful and valuable. An official message from the creator. Something we can point to as a reason.

[damienleroy]

Added there:
https://github.com/damienleroy/PowerAccent/blob/main/README.md#known-problems
Tell me if it sounds good for you.

[Jay-o-Way]

Added there: https://github.com/damienleroy/PowerAccent/blob/main/README.md#known-problems Tell me if it sounds good for you.

Thanks for adding that. Also see the damienleroy/PowerAccent#23 (comment) - that one has much more explanation. Maybe you could mix those 2 pieces of text?

Actually, the same question can be asked for the idea of, what I call, "translating" letters to a different alphabet ... Same answer?

After that, I'm curious: What would you recommend people that ask(ed) for these things?