M Henri Day wrote:
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
It stopped working well for me.
I will try again tonight.
Your description suggests that you may be reinstalling this program
every time, which may be the reasonable work-around for Vista.
Jim Allan
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