[users] Open default document on startup
OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. TIA //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. This, I /think/: File | New | Templates and Documents Organise Navigate to the one you want to use Commands | Set as Default Template (Ah, does seem to work. At least, Writer starts up now with my letterhead as default. I just need to turn that off.. :-) ) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. This, I /think/: File | New | Templates and Documents Organise Navigate to the one you want to use Commands | Set as Default Template Good try, Mike, but no cigar. When OOo starts it's still the original document that comes up. I recognize it since it has a header, and the one I want to use and selected as default does not. //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. This, I /think/: File | New | Templates and Documents Organise Navigate to the one you want to use Commands | Set as Default Template Good try, Mike, but no cigar. When OOo starts it's still the original document that comes up. I recognize it since it has a header, and the one I want to use and selected as default does not. No great loss there, I don't smoke :-) But I /did/ try that exact recipe as I wrote the reply. And it /did/ work - instead of a blank document, File | New gave my letterhead template after I'd done that. I must admit I assumed that starting Writer did an implicit 'File|New'. But checking, it does behave that way, at least for me (ubuntu 10.04/OOo3.2.0 from the ub repositories) (I do see there's a File|Templates menu item btw, shortcuts some of the above) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 12:07 +, Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. This, I /think/: File | New | Templates and Documents Organise Navigate to the one you want to use Commands | Set as Default Template Good try, Mike, but no cigar. When OOo starts it's still the original document that comes up. I recognize it since it has a header, and the one I want to use and selected as default does not. No great loss there, I don't smoke :-) But I /did/ try that exact recipe as I wrote the reply. And it /did/ work - instead of a blank document, File | New gave my letterhead template after I'd done that. I must admit I assumed that starting Writer did an implicit 'File|New'. But checking, it does behave that way, at least for me (ubuntu 10.04/OOo3.2.0 from the ub repositories) (I do see there's a File|Templates menu item btw, shortcuts some of the above) I use OOo from the OOo website (OOo 3.3.0 RC10 using DEB [Ubuntu]). I selected a new default template as Mike described. I closed OOo. Then I double clicked swriter to start OOo in Writer. When it opened, it was using the template that I had chosen as default. Not sure James what steps you are taking that are different from what Mike and I are doing concerning selecting a template as the Default template. I think this is the area with some problems. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Desde Argentina
Eduardo, el idioma oficial de la lista es el inglés. voy a traducir para vier si alguien puede ayudar. Eduardo has a Pocket PC with Window CE 5.0, he has more tha 4GB files in odf. How can he edit the files in his Pocket PC without change the format? Greetings El día 21 de enero de 2011 17:47, Cristian Eduardo Cabezas crist...@psiuxo.net escribió: Hola, que tal, acabo de adquirir una Pocket PC y he estado usando OpenOffice desde hace un par de años, el tema es que tengo muchos archivos en formato de OpenOffice (cómo 4 GB, miles de archivos, libros, documentos, etc), los cuales no quiero cambiarles el formato, ¡me encanta OpenOffice!, ¿cómo puedo hacer para leerlos y/o editarlos en mi pocket PC que tiene windows CE 5.0?, la verdad que no quiero migrarlos, quiero poder leerlos en mi pocket PC.. Gracias por su tiempo. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org -- Claudio Cortes +56 (2) 2994121 Meteorologo Laboratorio de Investigación, Innovación e Informática Aplicada (L3IA) Unidad de Modelacion y Gestion de la Calidad del Aire (UMGCA) Centro Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CENMA) -- Claudio Cortes +56 (2) 2994121 Meteorologist Laboratory Research, Innovation and Applied Informatics Modeling and Air Quality Management Unit National Enviroment Center, Chile (CENMA) - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Shortcuts for special characters
2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com dijo: It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you did was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt was ignored. I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in Writer. I find this surprising. In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if your desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like this. What you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the otherwise useless Caps Lock for that, but other options are available). It works like this: Press your Compose key → release it → press → release → press O → release → the result is Ö. Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to create an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and so on. This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but this is even better because it is system-wide. I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to a compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need. The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what the secret key is to get those. E.g., for á I type press the Windows key, type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows compose key turns the apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the secret key is the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the secret keys for ¿ and ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the Gnome documentation, but I can't find it. Thanks for the information! John Jason, on my 105-key standard Scandinavian keyboard with Ubuntu 10.10 installed, «¡» is obtained by holding the «Alt-Gr» key down and pressing «1» (on my keyboard, «Shift + 1» gives «!») and «¿» by doing «Alt Gr + Shift + +» (on my keyboard, «Shift + +» gives «?»). Hope this helps !... Henri
Re: [users] Shortcuts for special characters
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:12:37 +0100 M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com dijo: 2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com dijo: It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you did was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt was ignored. I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in Writer. I find this surprising. In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if your desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like this. What you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the otherwise useless Caps Lock for that, but other options are available). It works like this: Press your Compose key → release it → press → release → press O → release → the result is Ö. Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to create an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and so on. This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but this is even better because it is system-wide. I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to a compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need. The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what the secret key is to get those. E.g., for á I type press the Windows key, type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows compose key turns the apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the secret key is the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the secret keys for ¿ and ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the Gnome documentation, but I can't find it. John Jason, on my 105-key standard Scandinavian keyboard with Ubuntu 10.10 installed, «¡» is obtained by holding the «Alt-Gr» key down and pressing «1» (on my keyboard, «Shift + 1» gives «!») and «¿» by doing «Alt Gr + Shift + +» (on my keyboard, «Shift + +» gives «?»). Hope this helps !... Apparently the Alt-Gr key is enabled when you select the Scandinavian keyboard. With the US keyboard it is not, but as I discovered you can set it to any key in System Preferences Keyboard Layouts Options. I could have set it to the right Alt key, but I decided to use the otherwise useless Windows key instead. As it turns out I finally found the solution. I type the Windows key *plus the shift key*, then the ? key (which requires shift again). Ditto for the ¡. I finally found the table I was looking for. I don't know why the Gnome people didn't include it in the Help, but here it is: http://hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html There are lots of other things you can do with the Compose key. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Shortcuts for special characters
2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:12:37 +0100 M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com dijo: 2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com dijo: It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you did was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt was ignored. I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in Writer. I find this surprising. In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if your desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like this. What you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the otherwise useless Caps Lock for that, but other options are available). It works like this: Press your Compose key → release it → press → release → press O → release → the result is Ö. Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to create an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and so on. This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but this is even better because it is system-wide. I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to a compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need. The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what the secret key is to get those. E.g., for á I type press the Windows key, type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows compose key turns the apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the secret key is the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the secret keys for ¿ and ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the Gnome documentation, but I can't find it. John Jason, on my 105-key standard Scandinavian keyboard with Ubuntu 10.10 installed, «¡» is obtained by holding the «Alt-Gr» key down and pressing «1» (on my keyboard, «Shift + 1» gives «!») and «¿» by doing «Alt Gr + Shift + +» (on my keyboard, «Shift + +» gives «?»). Hope this helps !... Apparently the Alt-Gr key is enabled when you select the Scandinavian keyboard. With the US keyboard it is not, but as I discovered you can set it to any key in System Preferences Keyboard Layouts Options. I could have set it to the right Alt key, but I decided to use the otherwise useless Windows key instead. As it turns out I finally found the solution. I type the Windows key *plus the shift key*, then the ? key (which requires shift again). Ditto for the ¡. I finally found the table I was looking for. I don't know why the Gnome people didn't include it in the Help, but here it is: http://hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html There are lots of other things you can do with the Compose key. As a matter of fact, I generally use the right-hand MS key as the compose key on my 105-key keyboard, for example if I want to type «š» or «č», but for the two glyphs you mentioned, «Alt Gr» works by default. In any event, good you resolved the problem !... Henri - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org -- *老朽 頓首 M Henri Day, PhD, MD Stadshagsvägen 22, 5tr S-112 50 Stockholm SUÈDE Tel : +46 8 6183098 Email : mhenri...@gmail.com Skype/Google Talk : mhenriday http://mhenriday.googlepages.com http://mhenriday.blogspot.com/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/mhenriday/*
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On Jan 24, 2011, at 13:07 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. This, I /think/: File | New | Templates and Documents Organise Navigate to the one you want to use Commands | Set as Default Template Good try, Mike, but no cigar. When OOo starts it's still the original document that comes up. I recognize it since it has a header, and the one I want to use and selected as default does not. No great loss there, I don't smoke :-) But I /did/ try that exact recipe as I wrote the reply. And it /did/ work - instead of a blank document, File | New gave my letterhead template after I'd done that. I must admit I assumed that starting Writer did an implicit 'File|New'. But checking, it does behave that way, at least for me (ubuntu 10.04/OOo3.2.0 from the ub repositories) (I do see there's a File|Templates menu item btw, shortcuts some of the above) I see where you're coming from, Mike. It sounds as though you have OOo set to start up on boot. On the Mac there is no such option, and to save long startup times when I click on the OOo icon, I have it set to start up when the machine starts. At that point you can decide which kind of document you wish to be displayed by default, e.g. a Writer document, a Calc spreadsheet and so on, and I have opted for a Writer document - clearly a specific one. I now need to be able to change that. It sounds to me that what you are describing is what happens when you click on File/New/Writer //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:21 +0100, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 13:07 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 I'm sorry, I can't find this. Maybe I'm using the wrong search term. There was a thread in here once on how to make OOo start up in a chosen application, in my case Writer, and with a default document template. I made that change but forgot to save the thread in my little folder of useful OOo tips. Now I want to change the template which is used at startup. I don't have one called simply Default which I could copy my chosen template over. How do I do this? I promise to save the tip this time. This, I /think/: File | New | Templates and Documents Organise Navigate to the one you want to use Commands | Set as Default Template Good try, Mike, but no cigar. When OOo starts it's still the original document that comes up. I recognize it since it has a header, and the one I want to use and selected as default does not. No great loss there, I don't smoke :-) But I /did/ try that exact recipe as I wrote the reply. And it /did/ work - instead of a blank document, File | New gave my letterhead template after I'd done that. I must admit I assumed that starting Writer did an implicit 'File|New'. But checking, it does behave that way, at least for me (ubuntu 10.04/OOo3.2.0 from the ub repositories) (I do see there's a File|Templates menu item btw, shortcuts some of the above) I see where you're coming from, Mike. It sounds as though you have OOo set to start up on boot. On the Mac there is no such option, and to save long startup times when I click on the OOo icon, I have it set to start up when the machine starts. At that point you can decide which kind of document you wish to be displayed by default, e.g. a Writer document, a Calc spreadsheet and so on, and I have opted for a Writer document - clearly a specific one. I now need to be able to change that. It sounds to me that what you are describing is what happens when you click on File/New/Writer //James OK, now we know we are dealing with a Mac. This is a start. But from this point, I am confused as to what you want. I logged into my Mac to see if I could help. I clicked the System Preferences icon in the Dock. I clicked on Accounts and then clicked the Login tab. I added OOo so it would startup when I logged in again. I rebutted. When I logged back into my OS X partition, OOo opened. What I got was two columns of selections: Text Document Drawing Spreadsheet Database Presentation Formula Open Templates There were also 4 icons at the bottom. If you follow the instructions to change the default template, clicking on the Text Document selection will open Writer using the template you chose to be the default template. This seems to be what Mike was thinking you wanted. I thought so too. However, a simpler way is to click Templates instead of Text Document. Select the template you want to use, and click the Open button. Writer will open using the template you have chosen. This way you can open Writer with whatever template you want to use. Now if you do not get with you Mac that I got with mine, I would need more information as to what you got and how. A snapshot would greatly help. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On 24/01/11 12:21, James Wilde wrote: I see where you're coming from, Mike. It sounds as though you have OOo set to start up on boot. On the Mac there is no such option, and to save long startup times when I click on the OOo icon, I have it set to start up when the machine starts. At that point you can decide which kind of document you wish to be displayed by default, e.g. a Writer document, a Calc spreadsheet and so on, and I have opted for a Writer document - clearly a specific one. I now need to be able to change that. Not on this machine. But I think you're asking two questions. The one that's been answered is 'given I start xyzzy, how do I select xyzzy's default document when it opens?' If you're asking how to start xyzzy, the given OOo component, at bootup, that's an OS issue, surely? (And Mac's are and hopefully will remain a Mystery to Me :-) ) It sounds to me that what you are describing is what happens when you click on File/New/Writer Starting Writer from ubuntu's main menu behaves just as if File | New had been used. As it should. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Shortcuts for special characters
Den 2011-01-24 07:09:10 skrev John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com dijo: It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you did was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt was ignored. I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in Writer. I find this surprising. In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if your desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like this. What you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the otherwise useless Caps Lock for that, but other options are available). It works like this: Press your Compose key → release it → press → release → press O → release → the result is Ö. Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to create an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and so on. This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but this is even better because it is system-wide. I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to a compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need. The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what the secret key is to get those. ¿ = Compose ? ? ¡ = Compose ! ! E.g., for á I type press the Windows key, type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows compose key turns the apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the secret key is the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the secret keys for ¿ and ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the Gnome documentation, but I can't find it. http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html Thanks for the information! ¡You're welcome! -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Shortcuts for special characters
Den 2011-01-24 17:19:01 skrev M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com:
2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:12:37 +0100
M Henri Day mhenri...@gmail.com dijo:
2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan johnjas...@gmail.com
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100
Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com dijo:
It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you
did was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it
automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not
followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt
was ignored.
I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in
Writer. I find this surprising.
In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if
your desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like
this. What you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the
otherwise useless Caps Lock for that, but other options are
available). It works like this: Press your Compose key → release it
→ press → release → press O → release → the result is Ö.
Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to
create an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and
so on.
This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but
this is even better because it is system-wide.
I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard
settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to
a compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need.
The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what
the secret key is to get those. E.g., for á I type press the Windows
key, type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows compose key
turns the apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the
secret key is the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the
secret keys for ¿ and ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the
Gnome documentation, but I can't find it.
John Jason, on my 105-key standard Scandinavian keyboard with Ubuntu
10.10 installed, «¡» is obtained by holding the «Alt-Gr» key down and
pressing «1» (on my keyboard, «Shift + 1» gives «!») and «¿» by doing
«Alt Gr + Shift + +» (on my keyboard, «Shift + +» gives «?»). Hope
this helps !...
Apparently the Alt-Gr key is enabled when you select the Scandinavian
keyboard. With the US keyboard it is not, but as I discovered you can
set it to any key in System Preferences Keyboard Layouts
Options. I could have set it to the right Alt key, but I decided to use
the otherwise useless Windows key instead.
As it turns out I finally found the solution. I type the Windows key
*plus the shift key*, then the ? key (which requires shift again).
Ditto for the ¡.
I finally found the table I was looking for. I don't know why the Gnome
people didn't include it in the Help, but here it is:
http://hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html
There are lots of other things you can do with the Compose key.
As a matter of fact, I generally use the right-hand MS key as the compose
key on my 105-key keyboard, for example if I want to type «š» or «č», but
for the two glyphs you mentioned, «Alt Gr» works by default. In any
event,
good you resolved the problem !...
Henri
There are many possible solutions for this problem. Another one is to
create your own keyboard layout, which I did. It is available as ”Sweden –
Johnny Rosenberg” when I select Swedish for language or Sweden for
country. Here's my layout, just in case anyone's interested:
Row 1: §!#@%/()=+´
Shift+Row 1: ☠☺”♯¤‰|₍₎≈?`
AltGr+Row 1: ☏¡@£$¥{[]}\´
Shift+AltGr+Row 1: ℡☹“♮턌∵∴/⁽⁾≠¿`
Row 2: qwertyuiopå¨
Shift+Row 2: QWERTYUIOPÅ^
AltGr+Row 2: 턋ω€√τ♣♠ⁱ°π⌀~
Shift+AltGr+Row 2: 턉Ω¢®™♢♡ℹ∞℗⊕ˇ
Row 3: asdfghjklöä'
Shift+Row 3: ASDFGHJKLÖÄ’
AltGr+Row 3: ασðφγþ턆턇λøæ×
Shift+AltGr+Row 3: αΣÐ℉턞Þ턎턁턂ØƯ
Row 4: zxcvbnm,.-
Shift+Row 4: ZXCVBNM;:_
AltGr+Row 4: ≤ß☐℃♩βⁿµ¸…–
Shift+AltGr+Row 4: ≥턊☒©♩♭ⁿµ˛…—
AltGr+Tab: ⇥
Shift+AltGr+Tab: ⇤
AltGr+Enter: ↵
Shift+AltGr+Enter: ¶
AltGr+Backspace: ⌫
Shift+AltGr+Backspace: ⌫
AltGr+Arrow keys: ←↑↓→
Shift+AltGr+Arrow keys: ⬄↹↔⇨
AltGr+(Home End Delete Insert PgUp PgDn): ◂▸⌦✓▴▾
Shift+AltGr+(Home End Delete Insert PgUp PgDn): ◂‣⏏✔▴▾
Numpad: 0123456789,/*-+
Shift+Numpad: ±⅛¼⅜½⅝¾⅞⅓⅔.÷·⅚⅙
AltGr+Numpad: ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉⩽⅕⅗₋₊
Shift+AltGr+Numpad: ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⩾⅖⅘⁻⁺
That's it, I guess…
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Johnny Rosenberg
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[users] Re: Shortcuts for special characters
On 01/22/2011 04:25 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: OOo 3.2.1 (from OOo, no the repositories) on Fedora 14 x86_64. ibus? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On Jan 24, 2011, at 20:13 , Dan Lewis wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:21 +0100, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 13:07 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 09:54, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 09:56 , Mike Scott wrote: On 24/01/11 08:36, James Wilde wrote: OSX 10.6.6 OOo 3.2.1 Actually I thought this made it clear from the start that it was a Mac! snip OK, now we know we are dealing with a Mac. This is a start. But from this point, I am confused as to what you want. I logged into my Mac to see if I could help. I clicked the System Preferences icon in the Dock. I clicked on Accounts and then clicked the Login tab. I added OOo so it would startup when I logged in again. I rebutted. When I logged back into my OS X partition, OOo opened. What I got was two columns of selections: Text Document Drawing Spreadsheet Database Presentation Formula Open Templates There were also 4 icons at the bottom. Right, Dan, but I'm way past there. Originally I did get that window with the two columns of selections. But, the thread to which I'm referring provided a method whereby one could select the type of document to start by default, in my case a Text Document, and open a pre-selected document of that type, bypassing the window with the selection. And that I did, and now I want to choose another pre-selected document of that same type. It might actually be easier to find the one that is opening, and edit the styles, bus since I have one that I do like already, I thought I would merely change the pre-selection. And quite frankly, since I no longer see the selection window, I don't know how to get back there. It's possible that what I'm looking for is on that page, lurking behind the extra buttons. Does nobody recognize this scenario? //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [users] Open default document on startup
On Jan 24, 2011, at 20:13 , Dan Lewis wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 13:21 +0100, James Wilde wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 13:07 , Mike Scott wrote: Further to my earlier, it appears that what I have done is to configure OOo as though I started it on the command line with the parameter -writer. It shows the splash screen, bypasses the document type selection screen and goes straight on to open writer with a specific document. //James smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
