2009/10/17 Harold Fuchs <[email protected]>: > 2009/10/17 Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> > >> 2009/10/16 AG <[email protected]>: >> > I am designing a check-list that I will be using as hard-copies. I would >> > like to have tick boxes next to text, as a means of recording different >> > aspects or parameters (e.g. check all that apply, out of a range of >> > options). >> > >> > Thus far I have attempted this through experimentation with different >> > paragraph and character formatting options, but nothing has worked. In >> MS >> > Word, it was possible to insert a tab space, highlight that space and >> then >> > frame it using some formatting option (I can't remember which) and an >> empty >> > "box" or "oblong" would result. I am looking for something similar. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > >> > TIA >> >> Do you need to be able to tick and untick those check boxes directly >> by clicking it? In that case: >> View → Toolbars → Form controls → Select the tick box you want → Draw >> it wherever you want. → Right click it to edit preferences. >> >> Are the check boxes supposed to be ticked after they are printed out? >> Just use those characters: >> ☐ (unticked check box - U+2610) >> ☑ (ticked check box - U+2611) >> ☒ (ticked check box - U+2612) >> >> Should be included in most fonts. I actually have two of these on my >> keyboard (after tweaking my keyboard layout) and I can access them by >> AltGr+x and AltGr+Shift+x respectively (on US keyboards AltGr is the >> right Alt key, I think). >> >> If you can't access these characters, just copy them from this email >> and paste them into your document.☑ >> >> If you can't see any check boxes above, you are not using the right >> character encoding (should be UTF-8). >> >> Johnny Rosenberg >> >> > >> > AG >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > >> > >> > > Saying "U+2610" is saying that you need to enter the character whose hex > value is 2610. (Sorry if you knew that already). In OpenOffice you can do > this via the Insert>Special Character menu but there are better ways. On > Windows there are several different ways of doing it.
I omitted that information since I don't use Windows myself. I have created my own keyboard layout that contains all the characters I think I need (including arrow symbols on my arrow keys etcetera, combinated with AltGr or AltGr+Shift), but when I have to input unicode characters by hex code I often use the ”Ctrl+Shift+u [enter code here]↵” method (for example Ctrl+Shift+u ⇨ 2 ⇨ 6 ⇨ 1 ⇨ 0 ⇨ ↵). I don't have a clue how to do that in Windows, so I figured someone else would fill in with that missing information. Other than that we have Scim, but I never used it. Johnny Rosenberg > > I recommend you look at < > http://www.fileformat.info/tip/microsoft/enter_unicode.htm>. I use method #1 > on my Win XP Pro system. This works in any program, including OpenOffice > Writer, that supports Unicode. The advantage of this, of course, is that > it's the same for all programs; nothing special for Writer. > > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England > Please reply *only* to [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
