Op maandag 21 juni 2010 12:15:30 schreef Claire Wood: > 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 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dave Lizamore <dave.lizam...@gmail.com> > Date: 21 June 2010 04:06 > Subject: special characters ir writer > To: clairedw...@googlemail.com > > > 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? > > > Regards > > Dave
The simplest way in Linux to insert characters Dave is mentioning, when you have an English keyboard, is to use the setting US/English keyboard with dead keys. (in KDE System Settings->Country/Region and Language->Keyboard) In that case entering an ë is pressing the " key, which is <Shift>+', and the e key. Pressing " one time shows nothing on your screen, pressing an e shows ë and pressing a shows ä and pressing a space gives you the ". Pressing " twice gives ¨. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: authors-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: authors-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
