On 1/22/2011 8:36 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.
That's why "not normally used" is important. if you're willing to use a triplet, you could maybe use
something like vbar as the first character, followed by the pair that designates the character. Or
if you're aware of the unwanted substitution right away, Ctrl-Z should get you back to the
uncorrected text, since the substitution was the most recent action. Allchars, or something similar,
is probably a better solution, though.
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.
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