Hi,I've been having some trouble lately using in Writer especially when using
alternative keyboard mappings (Windows 7). Yesterday, for example, I was using
a mapping that was basically English but which included macron vowels (that's
vowels with a bar over the top, used, e.g., to indicate a long vowel in works
of reference for Latin). I found that the assigned key combination - in this
case, AltGr+vowel - was giving me a vowel with something like an acute accent
over it instead of a bar - though the key combination was working OK in other
applications, e.g. WordPad and even the humble NotePad.It did start to work,
however; but in order to get it to do so, I had to set the keyboard in the
language bar whilst the LO document was active. Is this the expected behaviour?
Should LO override the locale settings in cases like this? (wondering).
Again, whilst using the polytonic Greek keyboard, I have noticed that from time
to time the key combinations required to obtain some of the special characters
"stop working" - that is, the key presses appear to be detected, but they stop
having the desired effect. An example: to obtain an alpha with a rough
breathing, acute accent and iota subscript, I would have to first press the
combination <altGr + shift + '/'>, release those keys, and then press 'a' (for
alpha). It's the <altGr + shift> combination that stops working here; when I
press 'a' I get an alpha alright, but without the special diacritics (I think
that's the right word).Using a combination without <shift> and/or <altGr> still
works; e.g. I can press (and release) '/' and then press 'a' and get an alpha
with smooth breathing and acute, which is the expected behaviour.
I've no idea why this sometimes goes awry; the focus does not leave the
document in question, and I haven't noticed a consistent combination of
keystrokes/actions preceding the cessation of functionality. Similarly, I
haven't found a consistent way to restore it - I can generally do so,
eventually, but it seems to require different steps each time; such steps might
include changing the keyboard from polytonic Greek to English and back again,
using the language button on the desktop toolbar and/or using my assigned key
combinations (in case these are significant, I use <ctrl + alt + 1> to change
to the polytonic Greek and <ctrl + alt + 0> to change to the English layout;
<Left Alt + Shift> changes between languages (default)); clicking an empty area
of the desktop to lose the focus from Writer; giving the focus to a different
document; and so on.
Any idea what I might be doing to cause LO Writer to go awry (prevention is
better than cure)? Or the reason why it might be going wrong? Or if there is,
in fact, a consistent way to restore it (but I just haven't found it yet)?
Any helpful info gratefully received!
/Gary
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