Thank you for your message. I shall send you a private one, partly in
French if you wish.
By braces I mean that in some texts, viz. scientific texts -
chemistry - you need some kind of "large parentheses" : you include a
given element between parentheses, then you include it together with
something else within square brackets - and you need a shortcut for
this on the Mac because there is no specific key for it - and then if
you want to include the whole, plus another element, to create a new
entity, you need "braces", which are a kind of undulating
parentheses. Now I do not know the shortcut for this, which is why I
am asking.
Have a nice day.
Le 24 oct. 07 à 19:29, Stephanie Boulee a écrit :
Denis GRIESMAR wrote:
Thank you for your message. Where do you write from ? Considering
your name, you might be a Franco-Canadian from upper Vermont or
New Hampshire, or Louisiana... However, I've solved half of my
problem, but I am still looking for the shortcut keys for opening
and closing braces. Also, I've never used "copy and paste" on my
new Mac (bought Monday). How do you proceed for "copy and paste"
on a Mac ? Thank you. Merci d'avance, et même si je peux écrire en
anglais, je suis toujours heureux d'échanger des messages en
français.
I am not sure what you mean by "opening and closing braces" could
you elaborate on what these are? Perhaps they are just called
something different than what I'm familiar with. Are you able to
use them without a shortcut? If so, could you explain how you are
doing it without shortcuts? You can create your own or edit
shortcut keys by going to "Tools-Customize" and clicking the
"Keyboard" tab.
You mentioned something in a previous email about special
characters, which can be accessed by clicking "Insert-Special
Character" which brings up the OpenOffice.org (Ooo) equivalent to
Windows' character mapper. When clicking on a character it shows
what is supposed to be a shortcut sequence, however I don't know
how that is supposed to work as it doesn't make sense to me. I
don't know anything about Macs, sorry. The windows shortcuts do
seem to work in Ooo though, for example to get é I press alt +
0233. I don't know if Mac has a universal character mapper or if
so if it's different.
On windows control+C achieves copy and control+V achieves
paste. I would assume that right-clicking and manually selecting
"copy" and then "paste" would work regardless, or using the menus
"Edit-Copy" and "Edit-Paste".
I am writing from Tennessee, I grew up in California. I took
two years of French in school, so I understand a little bit, enough
to often get the idea of part of what someone says. (I think you
said something to the effect of "thank you in advance" and perhaps
something about being able to write in English but being glad to
exchange messages in French.) My name comes from my husband who's
family has roots that are Canadian French. My father-in-law likes
to be called "Papier" by the kids since that's what he used to
call his Grandpa. My maiden name, Frandsen, I have heard but am
not certain, comes from a Danish background, but the red hair I got
from my dad implies some Irish may have snuck in somewhere along
the line. My family on my mom's side comes from Luxembourg.
I am happy to exchange messages and brush up on my French,
although since this is a public mailing list pertaining to
OpenOffice and how it is used it would be better to send a personal
email or to subscribe to the social email group,
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Also it has been made known to me that most subscribers prefer
to have everyone reply at the bottom of a certain conversation. I
think it just makes things easier on readers so everyone does the
same thing and it reads in chronological order for anyone jumping
in on a topic.
à tout à l'heure!
Stephanie Boulée
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