On 2009-04-02 04:49 Reinier Bakels 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?
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
First of all, let me correct an error in my initial message: The issue
is not installing another keyboard but rather another language; right
now, with 2 languages installed, with Ctrl+Shift I can switch easily
between the 2. Adding a third one, that I rarely use, would complicate
things.
Now, replacing the US English keyboard with the International one is an
interesting idea, but already I observe that there are unexpected side
effects. For example, I have bee using shortcut keys to open programs
(Ctrl + Alt + letter). In the International keyboard, along with this
Alt + letter brings the same result. This in itself is not really a
problem, but I don't know what other complications I may discover later on.
Another solution would be to have both the International and the US
keyboard: than with the Ctrl + Shift I can switch between languages,
while I have an extra (keyboard) icon in the taskbar tray, which I can
use whenever I need it. I decided to try this, but I already witness the
windows problem: when I turned on the computer the keyboard was switched
to the International and in addition the keyboard icon had disappeared.
I'll have to play a little bit with the different possibilities to
decide which one I prefer...
emf
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