[Therion] ***UNCHECKED*** Completing symbol sets

[rsev at protonmail.com]

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On Thursday, October 10, 2019 3:04 PM, Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote:

> My suggestion would be;
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> - If the symbols you are using/creating are not from any of the existing symbol sets, then I would suggest a new symbol set.   If the symbols are for a widely used set of symbols that is not yet present in Therion, then they should be offered for inclusion in Therion, otherwise perhaps better to keep in your own layout, and make available for others via the wiki.

I believe the ones I will be creating first will be rather general use.

You talk about making them available via the wiki. Is there already a space in the wiki with shared symbols? I looked for it (rather quickly, I confess) but coudln't find any.

> - If your symbols are for a symbol set already in Therion, then add your new symbols to that set.

My main idea is to have a "complete" symbol set to use. From this point of view the best approach would be to complete the most complete one but I will probably work with the UIS one as being the most standartized one.

>  BTW Therion already automatically substitutes symbols that are missing from your chosen symbol set, with those from another.

How does it work exactly? What is the list of symbol sets searched by Therion? In which order are they searched? I couldn't find references to this in Therion Book (in another quick search).

> You can set in your layout different substitutions if you do not like the defaults.

How?

>  However, I welcome the creation of many more symbol choices – sparsity and artistic ‘quality’ of symbols is one of Therion’s long standing weaknesses IMHO.

Definitely. I agree. I'm not sure I'm the person to solve this issue but who knows?

Regards,

Rodrigo Severo
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