On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 19:52:57 -0600 Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> dijo:
>On 1/22/2011 6:25 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> OOo 3.2.1 (from OOo, no the repositories) on Fedora 14 x86_64. >> >> I've searched and I can't find how to set the shortcut keys for >> entering characters with accents, or what shortcut keys exist by >> default. E.g., I wish to type á, é, ü, etc. in an English document. I >> do not wish to change to a different keyboard. I can enter the >> characters by Unicode code point, but that is a pain if you have a >> lot of them to do. The default shortcuts would probably suffice if I >> could just figure out what they are. >> >> I cannot search the Help because any searches in Help crash OOo. >> (Crash report already sent.) > >I haven't had to deal with this, but how about an AutoCorrect that >substitutes the special character given a character pair (or triplet) >that would not ordinarily occur? I can remember long ago something >where if you typed u: (for example), it would create the umlauted u. I thought of that, but I don't want AutoCorrrect to change the combination all the time. What if I want to type: 1. The correct item for the task would be a: (a) frying pan, (b) stew pot, etc. In the above the a: would get converted to ä. I found an extension called Compose Special Character, but it takes almost as many keystrokes as just typing the Unicode value. It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you did was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt was ignored. I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in Writer. I find this surprising. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
