Bill, it should indeed be easy ! And - thanks to JJJ - it certainly has
become much easier ! Here are the glyphs you were wished to produce from
your keyboard, produced directly from mine : ✔ ♠ ♣ ♥ ♦. The procedure is
as
follows : Ctrl + Shift + u, then release, type the hexcode, and then
space-bar, e g, Ctrl + Shift + u, 2660, space-bar = ♠. It works splendidly
on my Ubuntu machine ; try it and see if it doesn't work on your Fedora
set-up ! All credit here is due not me, but JJJ, who patiently explained
the
process so that even I could understand....
Henri
This doesn't *seem* to work on Windows, not on my XP Pro system anyway
unless I'm doing something wrong - please tell me if I am, somebody.
However, I've found a wonderful free program that will allow you to map
pretty much anything including mouse clicks to pretty much anything you
like, on Windows.
Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ahk/
It works beautifully with OpenOffice, letting one map ligatures, accented
characters etc. to key combinations of one's choice and without having to
install alien keyboards ;-) It even allows use of the Windows key as well as
supporting left and right Alt or Ctrl or Shift *separately*. So you can make
Left Ctrl X and Right Ctrl X do different things if you want, or you can
have the left and right versions do the same thing.
And all via a simple, text file (editable with e.g. Notepad) in which you
specify the key bindings.
Fantastic.
No, I have no connection to the project or to any of its creators.
I've also found an "in the box" Windows accessory called Character Map:
Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Character Map
It behaves a little like OO's Insert Special Character facility with three
important exceptions:
a) You can drag a character from it into your OO document. You need to
select the character first and then, after releasing the mouse button, drag
it to where you want it; so two separate mouse clicks, one to select and the
second to drag.
b) It stays open after you have dragged a character; you could have it
permanently open next to your document windows.
c) You can select multiple characters by double clicking each and then
copying the entire string in one go using its Copy button.
I installed it in my Taskbar.
A good morning's work :-)
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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