2008/1/25, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > L. B. Cebik wrote: > > As a new user, the OO feedback system is too complex and too programming > > oriented to track. Also, as a simple user, I have no time for heavy > > involvement in discussion groups. Hence, I am using the simplest most > > direct means I know to register two items of concern. > > This is a discussion group of volunteers to answer problems that users > encounter in respect to OpenOffice.org. To present in problems or ideas > directly to OpenOffice.org you or someone must use their issue tracking > system. > > > Writer--so far, it does all that I need except one thing: In Word, I > > could program from the special character screen free key combinations > > such as ALT+[key] to handle regularly used special keys, such as > > portions of the Greek alphabet used in text references to equations. I > > do not find this facility in Help or on the special character screen. > > (Incidentally, the equation maker is superior, very like the old WP DOS > > version.) > > You can create macros for special keys, but the best answer is to set > alternate keyboards in your operating system (for example, Microsoft > provides a virtual Greek keyboard) and switch between them and/or use a > keyboard editor to create alternate keyboards to your desire. Such > keyboards will then work in almost every application. The Windows > keyboard editor is available free at > http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx . You may also find > http://www.cardbox.com/quick.htm provides a free, useful utility called > Quick Unicode Input. This last does not work properly in Vista.
<snip> > > Jim Allan Jim, as you yourself pointed out to me a couple of weeks ago, the Quick Unicode Input utility *does* indeed work in Vista, if one remembers to open it by right-clicking the desktop icon and selecting to run the programme as an adminstrator. When this has been done, one can use «Alt + 0[decimal code] (on the numerical keys with «Num Lock» on)», or alternatively, «Alt + , (on the Num pad) [hexadecimal code] » to input Unicode glyphs into, e g, Wordpad and OOo 2.3. To take my favourite example, the Chinese glyph «倀» (read chāng, i e, the ghost of person eaten by a tiger) can be entered either by typing «Alt + 020480» or «Alt + ,5000». I'm writing this on my Vista setup, and it works perfectly for me.... Henri
