2010/4/21 Carl Shewmaker <[email protected]>: > I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm composing > in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of ideas. Gotta be > an easy way. Any help appreciated. > Carl > Since you have Ubuntu, why not use the compose key? Compose o o → °
Depending on what keyboard layout you have I guess the character could be available more directly. I created my own, so I have it at AltGr+o and it's available on the Swedish standard layout and many other layouts. Not the US standard layout though, which seems to be very poor. Doesn't seem that US keyboards even have an AltGr key at all… but as long as you have a key over that you don't need you can configure it to be, for example, right Alt key or something. If you are planning to type temperatures, you maybe should know that Unicode characters are available for ℃ and ℉. ℃=Ctrl+Shift+u 2103 ↵, ℉=Ctrl+Shift+u 2109 ↵. (↵ is the Enter key). Another way to insert special characters, especially if they stand alone (space special_character space), is to use auto correction. For example ”degr.” could be automatically replaced by a ° and so on. Just make your replacement table as you wish. (c) → © inf. → ∞ (p) → ℗ ... → … and so on… Regards Johnny Rosenberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
