On 2009-03-31 11:54 Harold Fuchs wrote:
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?
I use a standard American English keyboard. If you define it as
"international" under Windows (do you use Windows?), then it is no problem
to write French and German characters. Accented characters are entered by
first typing ' or `, then the vowel, German "Umlaut" by first typing " and
then u, c cedille as ' then c. Also, several characters can by typed by
pressing the ALT key, incuding the n with a Spanish tilde = alt-N, German
"sharp s" is alt-s. Note that there is a difference between the (usually)
two ALT keys - typically one needs the right one on the keyboard (sometimes
marked ALT-GR).
There are also more elaborate key combinations, like ctrl-shift-alt-s = §.
There must somewhere be a list of key combinations. Danish o-slash is ctrl
slash, then o.
Key combinations are all indicated in Word for Windows under "insert special
symbol" panel - but that is hardly a viable advice on an OO forum!
Please note that Windows tends to switch keyboard definitions unxepcetedly -
if you have multiple keyboards defined (e.g. the US keyboard both as "US
international" and native US). The solution is to remove (deactivate) all
unneeded definitions (via the control panel).
reinier
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