On 01/22/2011 09:36 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
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.
I know that I have used "Insert/Special Character" for what ones I
need to use, like the degrees character for temperature.
" ǘ ǽ ǖ ǹ щ " should appear as ones not part of anyone's English
keyboard, with the last
being Cyrillic.
How often do you need these special characters in your documents?
I remember the Unicode option in Word. I like OOo's option better
than trying to remember the Unicode number. You can see the
special letter as your font would show it.
