[users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-02 Thread Eustace
On 2009-04-02 19:39 John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2009.04.02 04:49 -0500, Reinier Bakels wrote: ... Please note that Windows tends to switch keyboard definitions unexpectedly - if you have multiple keyboards defined (e.g. the US keyboard both as "US international" and native US). The

[users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-02 Thread Eustace
On 2009-04-02 19:05 Web Kracked wrote: I got late into reading this thread. SO, after reading the text below, I was wondering about Compose Character (and Special Character) options on OOo. You stated it is "hardly satisfactory". What is the trouble with it? Too slow? Hard to use? Hard to

[users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-02 Thread Eustace
On 2009-04-02 04:49 Reinier Bakels wrote: On 2009-03-31 11:54 Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/3/31 Eustace Occasionally I want to write Spanish that uses accented Latin characters (like é). I do not want to install another Windows keyboard (I toggle between an English and a Greek one). I can't assi

Re: [users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-02 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.04.02 04:49 -0500, Reinier Bakels wrote: ... Please note that Windows tends to switch keyboard definitions unexpectedly - if you have multiple keyboards defined (e.g. the US keyboard both as "US international" and native US). The solution is remove (deactivate) all unne

Re: [users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-02 Thread Web Kracked
I got late into reading this thread. SO, after reading the text below, I was wondering about Compose Character (and Special Character) options on OOo. You stated it is "hardly satisfactory". What is the trouble with it? Too slow? Hard to use? I use it with my needs in special characters in E

Re: [users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-02 Thread Reinier Bakels
On 2009-03-31 11:54 Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/3/31 Eustace Occasionally I want to write Spanish that uses accented Latin characters (like é). I do not want to install another Windows keyboard (I toggle between an English and a Greek one). I can't assign accented letters to keyboard combinations

[users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-04-01 Thread Eustace
On 2009-03-31 11:54 Harold Fuchs wrote: 2009/3/31 Eustace Occasionally I want to write Spanish that uses accented Latin characters (like é). I do not want to install another Windows keyboard (I toggle between an English and a Greek one). I can't assign accented letters to keyboard combinations

[users] Re: Typing accented characters

2009-03-31 Thread John Rotomano
may I also add the very good extension Thessalonica for Open Office , which is mainly for Greek/Hebrew/Cyrillic but you can assign keyboard shortcuts to any character you want http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/index.html Harold Fuchs wrote: Well, you can create shortcuts or macros as per John