On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:38 +0100, Thomas Lavergne wrote: > Dear all, > > I am Thomas and use OpenOffice at home and at my work place with a > classic, 104-key PC US Keyboard. I sometimes write documents in French > (my native language) and it is a pain in the neck to use accents because > I need to open the "Insert/Special Character" menu and select my é from > the array. I would love OO to allow for some shortcuts to my favorite > 'diacritrics' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic) to speed my > typing. Some of my colleagues still stick to " the other" word > processing software because of that feature. > > I went to the developer's page on the web site but could not decide if > this feature was: already implemented (I use 2.0.3), in project (which > sub-project) and I have no clue whether the OO community does or does > not want this sort of shortcuts to be implemented? > > I was thinking of the classical shortcuts like {<Ctrl> '} for the cute > accent, {<Ctrl> `} for the grave one and perhaps {<Ctrl> ^} and {<Ctrl> > "} (for the umlaut). > > I can code in C++ but I really have no clue where to start with (and > which sub-project to contact). But again, perhaps you do not want these > shortcuts and perhaps they are already implemented somewhere. >
Why code when http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/various_topics/Howto_special_char.pdf offers solutions. I use the dead key method on my system for French and German. -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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