Install the Windows truetype fonts under X, then use under OpenOffice. You'll find \~n there.
You'll probably need the ttmkfdir utility to create the fonts.dir/fonts.scale files. PMana *** Quoting Bopolissimus X Platypus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hi all, > > I'm trying to figure out how to input the enye character in linux. for > now, > i've tried to do it the easy way and am using the Unicode Character Map > program (it's in the Office | Accessories menu under Mandrake 10 KDE). > I couldn't find it there. I then tried to find it in the insert > special > character thing in OpenOffice. I can't find it there either > (apparently that > still just looks at the Unicode characters that the Unicode Character > Map > program looks at. > > Can anyone point me at how to do that? I'll be googling too. > > I found a workaround (Juan Miguel Cacho asked the same thing in > > http://marc.free.net.ph/message/19991216.121601.49226c7e.html > > and it had an enye in there, so just cut and pasted that), but is > there a canonical way to get the enye though? and what happens > if i paste it from a web page that uses a different character set from > the one i'm using, or i'm pasting to a document that uses UNICODE? > > hehe, there was this: > http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2001-December/013908.html > > but i don't have that man page, and anyway, i think it was dido who > said not to assume that the character set is ISO-8859-1. > > tiger > > -- > Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bopolissimus.sni.ph > Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" > > The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, > is > the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than > the > blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is > told simply for the amusement of the company. > Oscar Wilde > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
