Nice that yousolved your problem in some kind of way, at least. 2008/9/27 K W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Good morning, > thanks a lot for the suggestions. The problem, however, was exactly that > copying from the clipboard and all ways to reassign special characters to > key combinations did not work in OOo 2.4. The special character assigning to keyas I was talking about was not done in OpenOffice.org, it was done with the Operating System (in my case Ubuntu), or maybe I am misunderstanding you now. J.R. > > As I discoverd since, apparently this is a problem of X11. For in the > meantime I have, following suggestions in a different context on this list, > downloaded the beta version 3.0.0 of OOo native for OS X PPC, and with this > the problem disappears completely, pasting from the clipboard is working > perfectly, and I have solved this issue in no time. > > Thanks again and have a nice weekend, > K.W. > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: > > > 2008/9/25 K W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Good evening, > > > I am using the German version of OpenOffice.org Writer on a Mac G4 > under > > OS > > > X 10.5. While normal functions work fine - a great thanks to all who > > > developed Open Office! - I have a specific problem when dealing with > > > Unicode > > > characters not normally accessible through the keyboard. I have no > > problem > > > to insert a special character, e. g. u+016B (LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH > > > MACRON) via the menu insert, special character. However, I have not > found > > > any possibility to enter such characters in a field in the > search/replace > > > dialogue nor in the AutoCorrect dialogue. In these contexts pasting the > > > special character does not work nor does switching the keyboard table > to > > a > > > language that makes this character accesible via the keyboard (e.g. > > > Lithuanian) help as even like this the "normal" character as indicated > on > > > the keyboard is used. I have not found any information on how to solve > > this > > > in the FAQ nor in the OpenOffice help. > > > > > > As I am a beginner in using OpenOffice.org Writer I assume that I am > > doing > > > something very simple wrong, so excuse, please, if I am pestering you > > with > > > this question, but I would be very grateful if you could explain to me > > how > > > to overcome this problem. > > > > > > Thanks a lot and best regards, > > > K. Wöbking > > > > > Sorry for not knowing much about MacOS. Have you tried to paste from the > > clipboard? Assuming there is one in MacOS… > > > > For me, using Ubuntu, Ctrl+v usually works in most situations. Do you > have > > a > > compose key? On my system (still Ubuntu), I can compose my own characters > > by > > hitting my compose key (I assigned Caps Lock to it), then release it and > > then hit two other keys, like (in my case) Caps Lock → Release it → o → > > release it → c → release it ⇨ (c). > > > > (In case something doesn't support UTF-8, (c)=Copyright, →=right arrow, > > ⇨="double" right arrow, "=quatation mark (the real ones, since "=inches, > > for > > example) > > > > I can also make special characters (UTF-8) by hitting Ctrl+Shift+u → > > release > > → enter a hexadecimal number → hit space (or Enter if you prefer that). > > Before you hit Enter (or space), it will look like this example: *u2103*. > > When hitting Enter, *u2103* will be replaced by ℃ (degrees Celsius). Can > > you > > do something similar with MacOS? If so, that should work, I guess. > > > > I personally made my own keyboard configuration, so I have four different > > characters for every key (in combination with Shift and AltGr, the latter > > one often referred to as right Alt key, again I don't know about Mac). I > > can > > even use the arrow keys for entering characters (←↑↓→⇨⬄), and the Enter > key > > as well (↵¶). Still they work as they should, as arrow keys (when not > > combined with AltGr) and Enter respectively. I suppose that's possible > with > > Mac too, but for most people it's maybe a bit overkill. > > > > I am sure I didn't answer your question the way you perharps wanted, but > I > > hope I possibly gave you one idea or two. > > > > J.R. > > >
