[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 135816] New: Tip of the Day should draw keycaps for keyboard shortcuts to be less confusing.

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135816

            Bug ID: 135816
           Summary: Tip of the Day should draw keycaps for keyboard
                    shortcuts to be less confusing.
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.0.0.3 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: framework
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: info at skierpage.com

Some of the Tips of the Day that describe keyboard shortcuts are hard to
understand because the keys aren't delineated.

#41: "Need to insert the date in a spreadsheet cell? Type Ctrl+; or
Shift+Ctrl+; to insert the time."

Should I type Ctrl and the plus key, and the semicolon is punctuation?

#85: "To quickly insert or delete rows, select the desired number of rows (or
columns) and press Ctrl+ to add or Ctrl- to delete."

This is inconsistent, it leaves out the +, probably because "Ctrl++ to add or
Ctrl+- to delete" is hard to understand.

Expected results:
Ideally the Tip of the Day would use CSS that renders keycaps around keyboard
keys, e.g. https://jsfiddle.net/7rg5pLs8/1/ . That might also address bug
130979, which talks of the difficulty of localizing the modifier key's name.
Using an HTML renderer might also allow a cleaner fix for bug 135790 by using
HTML named entities &MOD1 and &MOD2; to represent Ctrl-Alt/Cmd-Option instead
of performing string replacements in these tips, or using a templating engine.
It would also probably fix bug 135113 as HTML text is often selectable.

Additional Information:

I think the LibreOffice help documentation likewise doesn't draw keycaps for
keyboard shortcuts, e.g.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/04/01020000.html

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