At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The absolutely correct spelling of the word
naïve has the two dots, known in English as a
dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating
a change in sound, rather than a diphthong.
For what it's worth, the German for diaeresis
appears to be
Brian wrote:
For what it's worth, the German for diaeresis appears to be Trema.
The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent,
whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an
accent.
Not quite. “Umlaut” is not a character or a mark but the
Tom wrote:
I thought the umlaut was a specific type of such a mark and that there
were quite a few different markings, and in different languages, that
could change the way a letter sounds?
Diacritical marks are used for lots of different purposes in different
languages though the marks
Brian Barker wrote:
At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots,
known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating
a change in sound, rather than a diphthong.
For what it's worth, the German for
** Reply to message from James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar
2012 08:18:20 -0400
Brian Barker wrote:
At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots,
known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an
Cliff Scott wrote:
For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á,
, £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual.
Pardon my
Cliff Scott wrote:
For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á,
, £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual.
Pardon my
Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one would
find out that information? Thanks.
You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but
might be wrong), you key in the ASCII code for the letter you want.
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Mark Stanton
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Just to mention, the keys that are annotated as dead keys actually
do work but you have to hit the space bar after entering the
particular key. ie to type ~ which is a dead key I strike the key as
normal followed by the space bar and the character
Mark Stanton wrote:
You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but
might be wrong), you key in the ASCII code for the letter you want.
That mehtod is unique to Microsoft products. It doesn't work in Linux.
Dunno 'bout Mac.
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Doug wrote:
I don't think the right alt key works out of the box --you'd have to
modify it to be a Compose key. You could also make the right ctrl key
to be Compose, or the right Microsoft key, if your k/b has one.
You just have to enable the U.S. - International keyboard, as I
mentioned in
** Reply to message from Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk on Tue, 13 Mar
2012 16:39:33 -
Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one
would
find out that information? Thanks.
You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but
** Reply to message from James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar
2012 10:13:02 -0400
Cliff Scott wrote:
For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
you can use the right Alt key to
** Reply to message from James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar
2012 10:10:15 -0400
Cliff Scott wrote:
For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various
special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it,
you can use the right Alt key to
Dear Document Foundation,
I don't know if this is the correct email address to be contacting you for
this sort of thing.
But I have noticed that in presentation, when I type naive, two dots appear
above the i. This only appears to happen when I type the word naive and not
anything else I
On 03/12/2012 06:57 PM, Sampath Rajapakse wrote:
Dear Document Foundation,
I don't know if this is the correct email address to be contacting you for
this sort of thing.
But I have noticed that in presentation, when I type naive, two dots appear
above the i. This only appears to happen
: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Cc: Sampath Rajapakse sampath.rajapa...@gmail.com
Date: Tuesday, 13 March, 2012, 4:56
On 03/12/2012 06:57 PM, Sampath Rajapakse wrote:
Dear Document Foundation,
I don't know if this is the correct email address
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