On 06/21/10 12:15, Claire Wood wrote:
Hi, is anyone able to help Dave because I don't know myself, as I've never
used Linux, and my time is sort of taken up with Calc at the mo with the
final push to meet Jean's deadline.
Thanks
Claire
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From: Dave Lizamore
Date: 21 June 2010 04:06
Subject: special characters ir writer
To: clairedwood
Hi Claire,
Do you know if their are equivalent alt codes to insert special characters
in the linux version of writer?
I use characters like ê, ë, ï on a regular basis in the windows environment.
Their respective alt code are 136, 137 and 139. I would like to migrate to
Linux but inserting special characters through the menu is simply too time
consuming.
The code on the special character dialogue for ë is U+00EB (235) but I do
not know how to implement this. What does the U mean?
Three ways.... (it's not much different than the Windows way)
1. Use Insert > Special Character in OpenOffice.org. This will open a
window where you can pick font/character to be inserted. Convenient
because it's visual... inconvenient if you need to use/insert several
characters.
2. In Gnome:
Click System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts. Select your keyboard
map. Click Options > Compose Key Position and select the compose key
you want to use. Close the windows. In your application/document press
that compose key + key combinations to get the special character you
want. For example ë is <compose key> + Shift + " and then e.
3. In KDE4:
Nothing to set up... just press Control + Shift +u and this will show
an underlined u. Type the unicode for the special character and press
Space. For example for ë, you would press Control + Shift +u, then
00eb, then space.
In other Linux desktop environments... you will have to look that one
up. It's likely to be something very close to the same as for the two
big ones (Gnome and KDE).
All 3 methods work in OpenOffice.org documents.
The U in the example above (Dave's original email) lets you know that
the following 4 characters are the Unicode hex code for that special
character.
C.
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