I got late into reading this thread.
SO, after reading the text below, I was wondering about
Compose Character (and Special Character) options on OOo.
You stated it is "hardly satisfactory". What is the trouble
with it? Too slow? Hard to use?
I use it with my needs in special characters in English, but
I see "glyphs" for other languages as well.
I hope you get whatever help you need for those character glyphs
you need.
Eustace wrote:
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?
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.
I installed #1 and seems to be working pretty good. You have to assign a
keyboard shortcut (I chose Alt + Enter) and press it after you type a
combination, for example you type e' and press Alt + Enter and it
becomes é (e, ', Alt + Enter = é). It should be satisfactory for
inserting an occasional character, though I would prefer if it were
similar to the Zombie keys extension for Thunderbird (Ctrl + ', e = é)
(that implements Microsoft's Keyboard shortcuts for international
characters and works with Word and the WordPad).
I saved your message in case in the future I decide to explore further
options.
Thanks everybody,
emf
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