Comment 1 by elliott94 on 2011-05-27 20:44
Changes:
Changed title from "Pauses arn't added when editing symbols when using the new GUI interface" to "Fourth column of symbols.dic cannot be edited in new Symbol Pronunciation GUI."

Comment 2 by jteh on 2011-05-28 07:02
The effect of preserving the symbol depends on the symbol. It may not necessarily cause a pause. In fact, it could cause the synth to read the symbol itself, thus doubling up. Most users aren't going to understand the concept of symbol preservation. I'm tempted to wontfix this on these grounds. Users who really want it can still edit the file. Mick, thoughts?

Comment 3 by mdcurran on 2011-05-28 09:31
I think I see the symbol GUI mearly as a way that users can rename or silence/announce symbols. I don't think it must be a GUI for the full feature set of symbol processing. As Jamie has stated, the file is there for those to edit.
I'm happy with all it allows right now. No need for preservation.
having said this, if someone was to provide a patch adding the appropriate controls, and code to interface with characterProcessing, and also provided a good enough explination that could be used directly in user documentation that clearly told users what the setting does, then I'm not sure I'd refuse the addition. But, I think for now its won't fix, at least from the lead developers.

This was done in #5234.