On 05/05/2011 10:43 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Folks,
I have been following this discussion perhaps it is time for my story.
I teach Hebrew and Greek in a Chinese language school and must prepare
material for students in those languages. I use Openoffice and now
Libreoffice exclusively. I used to insert the needed characters
special characters.
It wasn't enough to have the fonts. I wanted to work within OO and LO
and needed a way to key these into my documents directly.
I finally found some really decent fonts (SIL) and a splendid
keyboarding program from Tavultesoft www.tavultesoft.com and . Now I
can type these languages nearly as easily as English ... accents ...
jots ... tittles ... breathing marks ... everything. Some folks in a
Greek monastery provided a Tavultesoft keyboard that runs inside OO
and LO.
Tavultesoft is proprietary, but it has answered my problems (Even
Chinese!). Maybe it will do for you as well.
This link goes to a list of "Best Free" keyboards. Tavultesoft seems to
be a paid product.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-onscreen-keyboard-osk.htm#Click-N-Type
I used MS's version for a computer that required a USB mouse and
keyboard since it did not have PS/2 plugins. I did not have a USB
keyboard, so I had to use the on-screen one till I got a USB adapter for
the keyboard I had. Now I use a remote desktop viewer program to use
that number-crunching computer so I do not need desk space for it.
So these on-screen keyboards do work. I have an old tablet PC that
defaults to a mixed English and Japanese keyboard layout, for whatever
reason, but they do work when you need to use a different keyboard
layout than English.
See also
Fonts for Scholars = http://scholarsfonts.net/
SIL Font catalogue =
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=font
Classical Text Editor = http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/cte/
On May 5, 2011 6:01pm, nhtrader <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks for the help.
I installed the ComposeSpecialCharacter extension - no problems.
Although I have to admit it took me several attempts to set it up so
that I
could get it work with this key combo:
A+`+shift+ctrl+z (5 keys).
However, it seems that the most frequently used accents are visible
in the
table so it may be faster for me to just select the accent needed and
press
insert.
As for the other option of letting the spell checker fix misspelled
words,
well I'll try that another day. I think that I have currently have the
French dictionary installed but I can't be sure. It is listed in my
extensions so I would assume that it is installed and available. So
when I
write my next paper I'll give this a try.
Thanks for your prompt replies.
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