An interesting conversation. Yes, I realize that qa-dev has many projects ongoing and I also realize that not everyone uses windows or Mac OS's and, yes I'm Linus challenged. Still and all, I very often require special characters for my writing, so I have moved Windows Character Map (Charmap) onto my start button. (I have also done the equivalent in Mac,but it was a while ago).
When you need a special character, I bring up Charmap and, for whatever font (actually it is really called 'typeface') I'm using, I simply click on the character, click 'Select,' then go back to my script and paste. However...if the character is one that I use a lot, I check to see what its ASCII equivalent is = for example, the elipsis is alt+0133, the degree symbol is alt+0176, e grave is alt+0233, e circumflex is alt+0234, e acute is alt+0235., You need remember only a few strategic alt+ combinations as the same combinations work for all typefaces, except dingbats, symbol and a few other special sets. I kknow it sounds like work, but trust me - it ain't!!! --- Jerônimo Backes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, that's a great thing to create replacements. > Thanks, it was a great > help. BUT, it rouse up a little issue: you can't do > that (at least I > couldn't) with different fonts. Example: I'm writing > with Times New > Roman, but the special character needed is in the > Symbol font set. The > character representation is changed to a letter, > corresponding to a char > in Times New Roman... so all the characters in > Symbol, and in any other > font sets can't be used. > > But it was yet a great help. Thanks. > > CPHennessy wrote: > > >On Thursday 18 August 2005 19:44, Jerônimo Backes > wrote: > > > > > >>Hello there. I don't know if I came to the right > place, but I'll give a > >>suggestion for a little improvement in OO Writer: > >> > >>What about to create a panel with the special > characteres utilized in > >>the text? It's a pain in the ass to write a text > with a lot of symbols, > >>and to every symbol you need, you have to click on > "Insert", then > >>"Special Character", then select the char needed. > Up to now I copy and > >>paste every symbol to another text document, and > whenever I need one of > >>these symbols, I copy from there to my text. It > will be extremely > >>helpful to have a list of special characters used > in the text, then just > >>click on the entry needed and have it from the > cursor. > >> > >>What about that? I think it isn't hard to > implement. > >> > >> > > > >Thanks for the idea. It indeed may not be hard to > implement. However please > >remember that there are many other things which the > developers are working on > >and which we hope will be released soon. Maybe your > request can be > >implemented sometime in the future. > > > >However there is another way to get what you want > now, if you use AutoCorrect > >there is a tab there which allows you to define > your own replacements so that > >you can define "a/" as an a-grave, etc. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Yahoo! Acesso Grátis - Internet rápida e grátis. > Instale o discador agora! > http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________________ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
