Den 2011-01-23 03:36:36 skrev John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>:
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.
This seems to be a common problem for Windows users. I left Windows behind
in summer 2007, which solved most of the problems I had, but there is no
reason to do that only for a minor problem like this one…
In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if your
desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like this. What
you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the otherwise useless Caps
Lock for that, but other options are available). It works like this:
Press your Compose key → release it → press " → release → press O →
release → the result is Ö.
Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to create
an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and so on.
But you have Windows, right? Then I can inform you that there someone
wrote something called ”AllChars”, which ”emulate” the Unix-like Compose
key. It also adds a feature similar to Autocorrect, but since it works on
your whole system, it works everywhere: In OpenOffice.org, your text
editor, your email program, web browser, you name it.
Since a couple of years ago it's Open Source too.
Unfortunately it looks like AllChars are no longer developed, so maybe it
won't work in Windows 7, I don't know, but I am sure there are other
projects out there that does approximately the same thing. There is
something called ”AutoHotKey”, but I am not sure whether it does the
Compose key thing or not.
I did some searching and also found Accent Composer:
http://www.accentcomposer.com/
Maybe worth a try.
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Kind regards
Johnny Rosenberg
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