On Thursday February 15 2007 12:53 am, John King wrote:
> Dan Lewis wrote:
> > On Wednesday February 14 2007 2:14 pm, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> >> * Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [140207, 09:30]:
> >> > On Wednesday February 14 2007 9:21 am, Ennio-Sr wrote:
> >> > > Hi all!
> >> > > [using OOo2.1 under Linux/Debian/Etch]
> >> > >
> >> > > Did I discover hot water? ...
> >> > > [...]
> >> > > Ennio
> >> >
> >> > Sorry, but the water cooled off quite quickly. Since
> >> > these
> >> > are shortcuts, they are found under shortcuts. Specifically,
> >> > look for shortcut keys:in text documents. You might want to
> >> > look at the other items in the category of shortcuts. There
> >> > are many listed there.
> >> >
> >> > Dan
> >>
> >> Oh, that's fine: one never ends learning...
> >> What about my side doubt: is it correct that ALT+char_number
> >> doesn't give any char and you have to us Insert/Special
> >> character?
> >>
> >> Ennio
> >
> > Sorry, it does not work without some "major" changes.
> > Search
> > Help for secial characters. It describes how to get that to
> > work. There may well be a macro that will do it also.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Using the 'compose key' (right Win key on my suse 10 system) +
> characters will allow you to create most compound characters.
>
> e.g. <compose> + ~ , followed by n gives me ñ (ascii 241)
Very good. I just did the same thing on Mandriva Linux. However,
I did not that to get the ~ above the n I had to use
<compose>+shift+~ followed by n.
Dan
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