2009/3/31 Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> > > > 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/<http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/%7Eecl6tam/> > 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. >
Whoops. I switched #4 and #2 in my comments. So I use #4 and #2 was mentioned before. Sorry. > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to [email protected] > -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
