Den 2011-01-24 07:09:10 skrev 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.
¿ = Compose ? ?
¡ = Compose ! !
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.
http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html
Thanks for the information!
¡You're welcome!
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Kind regards
Johnny Rosenberg
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