Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-25 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I came upon a "Standard Symbols" page, where I found the degree sign at the beginning of line 9.  Again, thank you all for your help. Regards, Carl   --- On Thu, 4/22/10, jonathon wrote: From: jonathon Subject: Re: [discuss] degree sign To: discuss@openoffice.org Date: Thursday

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-22 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/4/22 jonathon : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Carl Shewmaker wrote: >>  Gotta be an easy way.  Any help appreciated. > > a) Quick and dirty: record a macro of the degree sign. Assign it to a > function key, then hit the function key every time you want to use the > macr

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Shewmaker wrote: > Gotta be an easy way. Any help appreciated. a) Quick and dirty: record a macro of the degree sign. Assign it to a function key, then hit the function key every time you want to use the macro; b) Map a glyph on your keyboard

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Andrew Jensen schrieb: > > > Hi, >> >> Well, fired up my HP mini and OO.o 2.4 >> >> Try as I might can't get those unicode characters to show up via the >> keyboard - but using insert->Special Character and selecting DejaVu

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Andrew, Andrew Jensen schrieb: Hi, Well, fired up my HP mini and OO.o 2.4 Try as I might can't get those unicode characters to show up via the keyboard - but using insert->Special Character and selecting DejaVu Sans for a font, there they are, right where they should be. The glyph for u+20

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Andrew Jensen
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2010/4/21 Carl Shewmaker : > > I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm > composing in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of > ideas. Gotta be an easy way. Any help appreciated. > > Carl > >

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/4/21 Carl Shewmaker : > I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm composing > in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of ideas.  Gotta be > an easy way.  Any help appreciated. > Carl > Since you have Ubuntu, why not use the compose key? Compose o o

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Carl Shewmaker
back up my mini to an external hard drive and install the latest 3 version. Thanks, Carl --- On Wed, 4/21/10, Alexandro Colorado wrote: From: Alexandro Colorado v Subject: Re: [discuss] degree sign To: discuss@openoffice.org Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 1:33 PM I think OOo had a special

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Robert & Carl: Being more familiar with Fedora, I will refer to that, as possibly the answer also exists in your Ubuntu environment. You can use an experimental blank Writer document to place the special characters from the Oo 2.4 menu. Then save the file. Following that you have 2 c

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread RA Brown
Carl Shewmaker wrote: I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm composing in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of ideas. Gotta be an easy way. Any help appreciated. Carl Carl, Does 2.4 not have the Insert > Special Character option? If so you

Re: [discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I think OOo had a special symbol panel in writer. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Carl Shewmaker wrote: > I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm composing > in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of ideas.  Gotta be > an easy way.  Any help apprec

[discuss] degree sign

2010-04-21 Thread Carl Shewmaker
I need to insert a degree sign in several places in a document I'm composing in OOo 2.4 on an HP mini running Ubuntu, and have run out of ideas.  Gotta be an easy way.  Any help appreciated. Carl