[dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread Thomas Lavergne
Dear all, I am Thomas and use OpenOffice at home and at my work place with a classic, 104-key PC US Keyboard. I sometimes write documents in French (my native language) and it is a pain in the neck to use accents because I need to open the "Insert/Special Character" menu and select my é from

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread Joost Andrae
...or if you're working on Linux you might set NODEADKEYS within your X configuration to allow the input of characters like áàéèî etc... Kind regards, Joost Can't you just pretend to your desktop environment (GNOME, Windows, etc) that you have a French keyboard? At least on Windows it's easy

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread Tor Lillqvist
ti 2006-11-14 klockan 10:38 +0100 skrev Thomas Lavergne: > I am Thomas and use OpenOffice at home and at my work place with a > classic, 104-key PC US Keyboard. I sometimes write documents in French > (my native language) and it is a pain in the neck to use accents because > I need to open the

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 10:38 +0100, Thomas Lavergne wrote: > Dear all, > > I am Thomas and use OpenOffice at home and at my work place with a > classic, 104-key PC US Keyboard. I sometimes write documents in French > (my native language) and it is a pain in the neck to use accents because > I ne

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Joost, *, On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:40:53PM +0100, Joost Andrae wrote: > ...or if you're working on Linux you might set NODEADKEYS within your X > configuration to allow the input of characters like áàéèî etc... The other way round.. Activate deadkeys. Or use compose sequences or use groupsh

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-14 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Thomas, On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:38:50AM +0100, Thomas Lavergne wrote: > > I am Thomas and use OpenOffice at home and at my work place with a > classic, 104-key PC US Keyboard. I sometimes write documents in French > (my native language) and it is a pain in the neck to use accents because

Re: [dev] Keyboard shortcuts for common diacritics

2006-11-15 Thread Joost Andrae
sure... Christian Lohmaier wrote: The other way round.. Activate deadkeys. Or use compose sequences or use groupshift/meta,... There are tons of different solutions and each of them is better than defining shortcuts in an application. --