2010/4/7 John W Kennedy <[email protected]>: > > On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Thibault Holcombe wrote: > >> I love openoffice but the biggest flaw for me is not being able to creat >> shortcuts for special characters like in Word. I am forced to use word for >> that reason when I write papers in different languages. I hope you guys can >> change that and let me know when you do! thx! > > If it is merely a question of using different languages, the easy solution > may be to install national keyboards at the operating-system level, and > switch to them at need. For example, I can switch to get абБгдеё or αβγδε or > אבגדה at will, and if I limit myself to western Europe, the US International > keyboard gives me é, þ, ß, ñ, ø, å and dozens of others without even > switching. Windows and Mac OS X can both do this quite easily, and you don't > even need any special feature in your word processor; it's built in, and > works just as well with any program. I don't actually know whether Linux can > do it, but I suppose it must.
Well, Linux is known for this (among other things, of course) so yes, it's very doable in Linux. I use nothing else but Linux and I have my own keyboard layout (don't even need an application for creating new ones; a text editor is enough, but I have actually created an OpenOffice.org macro that does most of the job for me, though it's not 100% finished yet) and I can easily switch among hundreds of alternative layouts (most languages have a couple of variants), create new ones and so on. But you don't need to, most of the time since there is some nice features like the compose character feature and the Unicode feature built in from start (unless those features are Gnome features rather than Linux features, I don't know since I use Gnome exclusively). Regards Johnny Rosenberg > > If, however, this is not enough (say you have some dingbats like ✠ or ✄ or ❡ > that you need to insert regularly), Openoffice.org can do that too. First, > record a macro that uses Insert->Special character. Then, under > Tools->Customize, set an available keystroke to invoke the macro. > > -- > John W Kennedy > "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. > ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it > humiliates. You may come to think murder wrong, because it is violent, and > not because it is unjust." > -- G. K. Chesterton. "The Ball and the Cross" > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
