Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-25 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I came upon a Standard Symbols page, where I found the degree sign at the beginning of line 9.  Again, thank you all for your help. Regards, Carl   --- On Thu, 4/22/10, jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com wrote: From: jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [discuss] degree sign

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/4/22 jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Shewmaker wrote:  Gotta be an easy way.  Any help appreciated. a) Quick and dirty: record a macro of the degree sign. Assign it to a function key, then hit the function key every time you want

[discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Carl Shewmaker
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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I think OOo had a special symbol panel in writer. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Carl Shewmaker shewmake...@sbcglobal.net wrote: 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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread RA Brown
Carl Shewmaker wrote: 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 Carl, Does 2.4 not have the Insert Special Character option? If so you

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Robert Carl: Being more familiar with Fedora, I will refer to that, as possibly the answer also exists in your Ubuntu environment. You can use an experimental blank Writer document to place the special characters from the Oo 2.4 menu. Then save the file. Following that you have 2

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote: 2010/4/21 Carl Shewmaker shewmake...@sbcglobal.net: 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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Andrew, Andrew Jensen schrieb: 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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.dewrote: Hi Andrew, Andrew Jensen schrieb: 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

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Shewmaker wrote: Gotta be an easy way. Any help appreciated. a) Quick and dirty: record a macro of the degree sign. Assign it to a function key, then hit the function key every time you want to use the macro; b) Map a glyph on your keyboard