M Henri Day wrote: > 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
Here comes your boundless joy! For a full listing and more extensive explanation, see: http://www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/hints/Accented_Latin-UTF-8.txt The above article mentions that the writer had problems with the compose key generating some characters. I have the same problem with my cheap UK keyboard, so for haček/caron accented characters I use the AltGr+Shift combination. so:- AltGr+Shift+' followed by c = č AltGr+Shift+' followed by s = š See the above article for other combinations, though you can most likely guess them :-) Most of the initial part of the article deals with xterm keyboards. Provided I choose the basic variant of my UK keyboard, I get the right characters anyway in openoffice and other applications. However, I found changing the variant does muck them up, so you may have to check your keyboard settings if you don't get the correct output. -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
