On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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). > Hi, Well, fired up my HP mini and OO.o 2.4 Try as I might can't get those unicode characters to show up via the keyboard - but using insert->Special Character and selecting DejaVu Sans for a font, there they are, right where they should be. The glyph for u+2070 looks like a degree sign to me. hmm- hp runs a forum for this type of question - I think I'll trot over there and see what I can find...let you know what I come up with. Drew
