2008/7/5 Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Saturday 05 July 2008 05:18:25 H.S. wrote: > > In scim, to toggle between two inputs one just has to do CTRL+SPACE > > combination (other combination can be configured). Much faster than > > moving to the mouse, clicking and coming back to the keyboard for typing. > > :) > > I still haven't discovered how to enter Japanese characters direct from the > keyboard. But _1_ click of the mouse (on the uim input pad), followed by > another one click for the next character is certainly quicker. (E.g. > click-click-click - 3 clicks - instead of Chi-hi-ro -7 letters input from > the > keyboard.) > > But my granddaughter agrees with you and wants to use the keyboard, so any > pointers would be very welcome. > > Lisi
Lisi, we're all (almost all ?) here to help other OOo users (and/or their granddaughters) with their problems, to the extent that our own expertise and/or experience permits. Should a suggested solution fail to work, just come back to the list and we'll try threshing it out again ! Inputting Japanese glyphs (漢字, 平仮名, 片仮名) directly from the keyboard using SCIM should be no problem, but there may be slight differences in just how the latter is to be configured from distro to distro. In Ubuntu, which with I am most familiar, following the instructions on the help page to which I provided a link (http://tinyurl.com/275sb8) should suffice. I don't remember which distro you use, but I am certain that with the aid of all the experts on this forum, we shall be able to resolve the problem to your granddaughter's satisfaction. And by the way, I agree with her - it is *much* easier and faster to enter glyphs directly from the keyboard than to hunt them down in a list and click them in !... Henri
