Greetings,
One doesn't need to summon up Linux to get all the special characters one
needs for music, mathematics, or most anything else. It's all there in MS
Windows, waiting for you to use. First, do a search ON YOUR COMPUTER for
"Character Map." On my HP Envy notebook running Windows 10, the path is
given:
Local Drive(C)>Program Files>Microsoft>Windows>Start Menu>Programs>Windows
Accessories>System Tools
When you get to the screen that has the Character Map, pin that app to your
Windows Tool Bar. Now when you have a document in OpenOffice, Mail, or any
other similar word-processor utility, just click on the Character Map icon
on your Tool Bar, find your special symbol, select it, copy it, & then paste
it into your document, "easy as pie." Not all of the fonts, & there are
many, have the ♭ (music flat) symbol, so you'll have to search to find a
flat symbol to your liking. The one shown above came from the Character Map
font "Lucida Sans Unicode."
I hope this helps you.
Best wishes,
Anthony J. Rudgers
Orlando, FL
Posted: August 8, 2016; 9:18 pm
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2016 6:23 PM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Can't find answer on website or Help
On 08/07/2016 02:51 PM, gmbg...@gmail.com wrote:
I am very frustrated in trying to find answers to questions about Open
Office, it all sounds too technical.
The main problem I have at present is trying to type in text the symbols
found in music: I have a sharp symbol on my keyboard but none of the
others, particularly needing the flat symbol.
I have looked all over the character map as advised in your Help but it
just isn’t there. The only way I can do it is to find an old document
containing it and copy and paste. Surely this can’t be right?
I am using an HP Pavilion x360 laptop with windows 10. Like many modern
laptops it has no number pad or num lock key so I can’t access Alt codes.
Please help.
Gillian
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Don't just b♯, b♭. These symbols were typed using a Compose key in
Linux. There is at least one program that will provide a compose key in
Windows.
Here is the download site for WinCompose:
https://github.com/S...evar/wincompose
<https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose>
And here is the site that leads to it:
https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/92511-wincompose-a-robust-compose-key-for-windows/
The sharp symbol is made by Compose ##. ♯
The flat symbol is made by Compose # b ♭
And a natural is made by Compose # f ♮
Note that the letters are case-sensitive!
You can also make them by Unicode. I don't know how to do Unicode in
Windows, but the Unicodes for the symbols are
sharp: 266F
flat: 266D
natural: 266E
You can make lots of other things with Compose: all the diacritical
marks for European languages, currency symbols, fractions., some Greek
letters.
Go to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable
Hope that helps! --doug
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