Thanks a lot for these references, i hope i might be able to get something 
usable from them.
/Gary     On Friday, 9 August 2019, 08:46:44 BST, Heiko Tietze 
<heiko.tie...@documentfoundation.org> wrote:  
 
 This was requested long time ago in [1] while meanwhile we have the Recently 
Used section and I could imagine to provide access per shortcut to those items. 
However, there is the wish to extend this section [2] and that would break any 
shortcut approach. What you always can do is to create own entries in the 
replacement table of the autocorrect function [3].

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41981
[2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120753
[3] https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/shared/01/06040200.html

On 09.08.19 08:56, gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>  Hi,
> I'm writing some Latin texts with long vowels indicated and so i'm frequently 
> having to go to the special characters dialog.
> I'm wondering if its possible to set up certain keys in LO so that pressing, 
> e.g. ALT +A would enter a with macron character (and SHIFT +ALT +A for the 
> capital)?
> 
> I've looked at tools>configure but can't yet see if there is a way to make a 
> key combination return a special character rather than execute a function. 
> I've also quickly looked at autocorrect but that doesn't seem to work on key 
> combinations.
> 
> I'm guessing what i need is a keyboard mapping option?
> 
> I'm using LO 6.0.7.3 on ubuntu 18.04.08
> 
> Thanks
> /Gary
>  
> 

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