On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:12:37 +0100 M Henri Day <[email protected]> dijo:
>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. >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 !... Apparently the Alt-Gr key is enabled when you select the Scandinavian keyboard. With the US keyboard it is not, but as I discovered you can set it to any key in System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Options. I could have set it to the right Alt key, but I decided to use the otherwise useless Windows key instead. As it turns out I finally found the solution. I type the Windows key *plus the shift key*, then the ? key (which requires shift again). Ditto for the ¡. I finally found the table I was looking for. I don't know why the Gnome people didn't include it in the Help, but here it is: http://hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html There are lots of other things you can do with the Compose key. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
