2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100 > "Johnny Rosenberg" <[email protected]> dijo: > > >> 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. > > >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. > > This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but this > is even better because it is system-wide. > > I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard > settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to a > compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need. > > The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what the > secret key is to get those. E.g., for á I type press the Windows key, > type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows "compose" key turns the > apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the "secret key" is > the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the secret keys for ¿ and > ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the Gnome documentation, > but I can't find it. > > Thanks for the information! >
John Jason, on my 105-key standard Scandinavian keyboard with Ubuntu 10.10 installed, «¡» is obtained by holding the «Alt-Gr» key down and pressing «1» (on my keyboard, «Shift + 1» gives «!») and «¿» by doing «Alt Gr + Shift + +» (on my keyboard, «Shift + +» gives «?»). Hope this helps !... Henri
