On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:11:31 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: > On 02/23/07 at 01:54 AM, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > >My plea is for the developers of OO to implement that list within Writer > >etc. so as to make OO more competitive with MS Office and to provide > >better functionality for multilingual users. Currently OO doesn't even > >support the Alt key, let alone the combinations shown in that web page. > > Harold, I can type á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ, Ñ, by typing Alt + 160, 130, 161, > 162, 163, 164, and 165 on OpenOffice 2.0.4 running on eComStation. If you > have a problem with this, maybe it's with Ubuntu?
There are different ways of doing this between Windows and Linux. Windows: Hold down Ctrl+Alt and type 0 (zero) plus the decimal code for the character. In some applications you must have the numeric keypad button on. Ubuntu Linux up to and including OOo 2.0.2 on Dapper: Hold down Ctrl +Shift and type the hex code for the character. Ubuntu Linux after the above: Hold down Ctrl+Shift and type u; release Ctrl+Shift and type the hex code; hit spacebar. If your version of Linux/OOo is right around the time Dapper went to Edgy (last fall) you may have one or the other of the above. The switchover was necessary in order to access all of the Unicode characters; previously there were a few that we couldn't do with the keyboard. For both OSs you can create systemwide keyboard mappings, but that is perhaps overkill and a general pain. For both OSs you can also change the language/locale so you will have a different keyboard. You can install more than one and switch back and forth if you like. This is a good solution if you constantly need to type in more than one language. Europeans set their computers up like this all the time. So do a lot of Canadians and people living along the US-Mexico border. Don't ask me about Macs. I'm sure equivalent functionality is possible, I just don't know where the buttons are. Macs are mysterious things. If you google you can find the hex and decimal codes for the characters in various places online. You can also find them with Character Map (same app name in Linux and Windows). When you find the character you want in Character Map it will tell you down in the corner of the window what the hex or decimal code is. Just jot down the codes for the ones you use a lot. I made myself a cheatsheet and taped it to my laptop's keyboard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
