Jerônimo, that was my exact point! The ASCII equivalents are the sami in all the standard typefaces. It is only when you are using special typefaces, such as Symbol or Dingbats, etc. that you have to go farther. If you didn't like my first suggestion, OK! How about the old two window trick? If your monitor is big enough, you can have your workspace window cover most of the screen and the Charmap window in a small section of the screen - just big enough to read, The only other suggestion I have is for someone at OOo to have a 'Special Characters' button on the formatting toolbar. The Button could have a dropdown menu with a 'font' choice and a matrix with the characters on it. Unfortunately, I don't code and I doubt you want to wait until I learn. I know it might seem a lot of work to use Charmap, but it gets pretty quick, once you get used to it and you will also find that you DO remember the alt+code combinations for the most common symbols that you use. (Maybe even in spite of yourself). Hope this is of some use to you or someone. Cheers. DB/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
--- Jerônimo Backes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know you can do all of that work, and that you end > up used with it. > But the problem is to use various special > characters, with various > typefaces. That's the pain. If you need to change > the typeface, then you > need to search in that enormous list of characters > to find what is the > char you need. Then, you need another char, in other > typeface... and you > have the same work. And when you need more than 20 > special chars to use, > in different typefaces, you can't remember all the > ascii equivalents. > Also, you need to remember the correct typeface for > every different > sequence. Man, nothing is better than put all the > chars you need to > another file, copy from there and paste on your text > whenever you need. > But a special panel that could list the chars used > and remember all the > font configuration of every special char would be a > hand in the wheel (I > don't know if that expression - hand in the wheel - > means "great help" > as is does in portuguese. Does it? At least I > tried... : ) > > > David Black wrote: > > >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 > >>> > >>> > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
