Hi Ludvik, *, On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 09:49:26PM +0000, Ludvik Engelbrekt Nikulainen wrote: > [...] > Is there a way to create 'shortcuts' to the classical > greek characters, similar to the way one can > accentuate "รก" by pressing the acute accent "'" and > "a" (with the exeption that the classical greek > characters could include _multiple_ diacritical marks > with one alphabet)?
Sure - just configure your keyboardlayout/input method. Multiple accents are probably more easy to add as compose sequence than with dead-keys. > Back when I was still using > Windows and agonising with MS Word, there was a > reasonably good program that could do precisely this. > How would one go about to implement this in OOo and > how is the normal accentuation carried out now? I'm sure that program was an external one. When attempting to do this in OOo, this will always suck compared to specialized utilities. And furthermore you would have to leard different input-methods/utilities for every software you use. The much better solution is to use a suitable keyboard layout/input method. (there are a couple - nor knowing greek myself, I cannot give any recommondation though).. http://im-classgreek.sourceforge.net/ or more simple, the polytonic keyboard-layout (see e.g. http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html#T6.5.3) I'm sure there are more out there.. > Could > polytonic accentuation be achieved by programming a > UNO package or should some other way be considered > better? I think a dedicated input method / keyboard layout that is available for the whole system is far better than a per-application solution. > [...] As I've > understood it, there really are currently no real > standard ways to produce and type polytonic Greek in > different wordprocessors. Exactly this is the reason why you should try to find an external one that works with all wordprocessors equally well. > [...] ciao Christian -- NP: Metallica - Through The Never --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
