Peter Challenger wrote:
I have installed Openoffice 2,0. When I use Microsoft Word and wish to
compose a passage in (say) German, I can assign various special
characters (A umlaut and the like) to F keys, which makes typing quick
and easy; I don't have to insert each special character one at a time.
Is there any way of doing a similar thing with Openoffice? And can I
produce a "dash" of decent length (not just a hyphen)?
OpenOffice itself provides no simple way to modify keyboard input.
Keyboard input definitions are left to keyboard drivers and keyboard
enhancement utilities then allows the same keystrokes to work in every
program. I think this is a better and more structured approach to
inputting special characters then having separate special keystrokes for
each separate program on your computer ... though some disagree.
One common way, for example, to type in German on a standard English
operating system is to switch to a German keyboard driver, type the
German, and then switch back to a standard keyboard driver. (All current
up-to-date popular operating systems come with a large number of
supplied keyboard drivers and the ability to customize the keyboard.)
You can also assign individual special characters to OpenOffice.org
macros. In some case auto-correction will do what you want.
Some help on entering special characters in OpenOffice is available in
the article "How To Insert Special Characters" at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html
Information for some popular keyboard utilities, many of them free, is
available at http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/utilities.html Many users
of MS Windows like AllChars which available from
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/ (though this only allows easy input of
characters available from your normal 8-bit character set, not from all
of Unicode).
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