Is there a way to display an escaped symbol, e.g.
[symbol nehemoyia:\ mm\ hmm\,\ breaths(
without the escapes, e.g.
nehemoyia: mm hmm, breaths
?

@jameslo I generally set a label or dynamically create a comment.

@oid Perfect, thanks. If you only need to display the symbol, would you set the label of anything other than a canvas?

@jameslo I suppose if your patch's object count is getting to the point of slowing down the UI you could use the label from any object already on the screen and use the x/y offset to shift it too where you would need it, one less bounding box for pd too keep track off. Only time I can think of where it could make sense to use the label from anything other than a canvas.