2007/3/4, Nicholas Hannon Briggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am using OpenOffice 2.0.3 and I was wondering if it was possible to type Chinese charters as a font. I have read the instructions for changning a language, but as of yet I have not been able to type Chinese characters. I feel there is a way to do this but I have been unsucessful at finding the answer. Please help me out. Thanks. -Nick B.
Nick, what operative system do you use on your computer ? Entering Chinese glyphs directly from your -presumably English - keyboard is, if I understand the matter aright, more an OS than an OOo question. The two major alternatives are Windows IMEs ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx) and SCIM (http://www.scim-im.org/). I use a bundled version of the latter on a Linux distro (Ubuntu 6.10) and am reasonably satisfied with the way it works in writing Chinese and Japanese texts. Works equally well with OOo and other text editors - including Gmail's rich formatting. If you'd like to try an online pinyin input method editor which does not require downloading anything to your computer (but in return does require that you cut and paste into texts on which you are working), you might take a look at what is offered at the following address : http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/ime.html.... Henri
