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Jean-Jacques VASTIAU [email protected] Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. -- Albert Schweitzer -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Rosenberg [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 24 January, 2010 9:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Card games symbols 2010/1/24 J.J. Vastiau <[email protected]>: > Unfortunatly, I am in Windows with OpenOffice Well, I don't know much about Windows, but still you are using OpenOffice.org, right? So my suggestion about writing four macros and assign them to keyboard shortcuts will work no matter you are on Windows, Linux MacOS X or whatever. Are you familiar with macro programming? Johnny Rosenberg > > > > Jean-Jacques VASTIAU > > [email protected] > > > Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. > > -- Albert Schweitzer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Johnny Rosenberg [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 23 January, 2010 8:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Card games symbols > > 2010/1/23 Eustace <[email protected]>: >> On 2010-01-11 10:02 J.J. Vastiau wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I need to write documents supporting the game of Bridge and thus >>> need to be able to use the symbols for the colors. >>> >>> If my document is in Arial, I can find the symbols using the "insert >>> special caracter" command. For spades, it says it corresponds to >>> U+2660. I guess this U=2660 is some shortcut to avoid the routine of >>> "insert special caracter". How does it work? > > In Ubuntu, press Ctrl+u → release keys → press the code → press ↵ (Enter). > In Windows and MacOS X I don't know. > > OT: I actually created my own keyboard layout to include all the > characters I think I need - 4 characters/key, I can even type with the > arrow keys (←↑↓→⬄↔↹⇨, Enter key (↵¶), Tab key (⇤⇥), Delete key (⌦⏏) > and more… ♢ (AltGr+Shift+y), ♣ (AltGr+y), ♡ (AltGr+Shift+u), ♠ > (AltGr+u) > > If you don't have a Unix-like OS, you can probably, as a workaround, create > four simple macros that insert those characters for you and then assign them > to a keyboard shortcut or you could create four buttons and assign the macros > to them. > > Regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > > >>> >>> Thanks and regards >>> >>> Jean-Jacques VASTIAU >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. >>> >>> -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III >> >> It is simpler to ascribe the characters to Autocorrect > Replace. >> >> emf >> >> -- >> It ain't THAT, babe! - A radical reinterpretation >> https://files.nyu.edu/emf202/public/bd/itaintmebabe.html >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
