2009/3/31 Eustace <[email protected]> > Occasionally I want to write Spanish that uses accented Latin characters > (like é). I do not want to install another Windows keyboard (I toggle > between an English and a Greek one). I can't assign accented letters to > keyboard combinations as I did in WP. I could use a AutoCorrect > combinations, like e//, but I would have to type spaces before and after the > character for it to work, and then I would then have to delete them, so that > the character would become part of a word. That's maybe a little easier than > Insert > Special Character, but hardly satisfactory. Any other options? > > emf
Well, you can create shortcuts or macros as per John Jason Jordan's reply but OOo doesn't recognise the Alt or Alt Gr keys, I suppose for cross-OS compatibility. Or try 1. http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ComposeSpecialCharacters 2. http://www.cardbox.com/quick.htm 3. http://ipa4linguists.pbwiki.com/Windows+IPA%3A+Main+page 4. http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6tam/ 5. http://www.spanishnewyork.com/spanish-characters.html I've only just found #1. I've had a lot of success with #2 which my Danish wife uses also (they use "weird" vowels); it's the one we have installed and it works with all Windows programs, not just OOo. #3 and #4 have been mentioned in this list before and I've used #4. A Spanish speaking acquaintance has used #5. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
