2007/2/18, John King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
M Henri Day wrote: > When I was using *XP* on my computer, *Word* (and to a lesser > degree, even other apps, like Gmail) permitted me to make use > of a little table I had prepared from the *Table de caractères > Unicode* <http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/> to write in certain > graphs that weren't immediately available on my (Norwegian) > keyboard (to write Chinese and Japanese, I used the language > bar and the IMEs ; I now use SCIM), but to which I could gain > access by using the Alt key and the numpad keys (with Num Lock > *on*) to the right of the keyboard. To give an example of what > I mean, here below an excerpt from the table : > > € = Alt + 0128 > ¥ = Alt + 0165 > Ç = Alt + 0199 > ç = Alt + 0231 > Ć = Alt + 0262 > ć = Alt + 0263 > Č = Alt + 0268 > č = Alt + 0269 > > Some, like €, but by no means all of these are taken care of by > Alt Gr +, but I should very much like to have recourse to the > others as well directly from the keyboard, instead of having to > open my list and cut and paste. Does anyone know if it is > possible to arrange OO.o so that Alt + numpad keys would work > as they do in *Windows*/*Word* ?... > > Henri I use the 'compose' key to generate characters such as the examples above. You'll find a list on: http://andrew.triumf.ca/iso8859-1-compose.html On ubuntu edgy you can define which key to set as the compose key in System - Preferences -Keyboard - Layout options. Then tap the compose key, tap the accent you want (key defined on the above web page, but most can be guessed and are easy to remember) and then the character. So, compose + , + C = Ç (0199) Of course, some characters that are not character + accent won't be covered. -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot, John ! I went to System→Preferences→Keyboard→Layout Options, as per your instructions, and found that under the last-named, I could choose Compose key positions, with the following alternatives : - Right Alt is Compose - Right Win-key is Compose - Menu is Compose - Right Ctrl is Compose - Caps Lock is Compose As I never use the Right Win-key, the choice was obvious, and while most of the symbols listed in ISO 8859-1 were already available to me on my rather well-equipped keyboard, some, like «ů» were not. Now, I think, I can write just about everything I need to write in the European languages I use directly from my keyboard - with one important exception : I can't compose a caron or inverted circumflex or «háček» - «ˇ» - which I need to write letters like «č»,«š», «ž» and «ř», used in certain Slavic orthographies. If I could figure out how to compose this symbol and add it to ordinary ASCII letters by using the compose key, my joy would know no bounds - until I ran into something else I needed to know.... Henri
