Hi :) Blimey that is really difficult to read! Any chance of breaking it down into shorter paragraphs with a bigger gap between paragraph? Regards from Tom :)
On 6 February 2015 at 10:11, Gary Collins <gcatl...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi,I've been having some trouble lately using in Writer especially when using > alternative keyboard mappings (Windows 7). Yesterday, for example, I was > using a mapping that was basically English but which included macron vowels > (that's vowels with a bar over the top, used, e.g., to indicate a long vowel > in works of reference for Latin). I found that the assigned key combination - > in this case, AltGr+vowel - was giving me a vowel with something like an > acute accent over it instead of a bar - though the key combination was > working OK in other applications, e.g. WordPad and even the humble NotePad.It > did start to work, however; but in order to get it to do so, I had to set the > keyboard in the language bar whilst the LO document was active. Is this the > expected behaviour? Should LO override the locale settings in cases like > this? (wondering). > Again, whilst using the polytonic Greek keyboard, I have noticed that from > time to time the key combinations required to obtain some of the special > characters "stop working" - that is, the key presses appear to be detected, > but they stop having the desired effect. An example: to obtain an alpha with > a rough breathing, acute accent and iota subscript, I would have to first > press the combination <altGr + shift + '/'>, release those keys, and then > press 'a' (for alpha). It's the <altGr + shift> combination that stops > working here; when I press 'a' I get an alpha alright, but without the > special diacritics (I think that's the right word).Using a combination > without <shift> and/or <altGr> still works; e.g. I can press (and release) > '/' and then press 'a' and get an alpha with smooth breathing and acute, > which is the expected behaviour. > I've no idea why this sometimes goes awry; the focus does not leave the > document in question, and I haven't noticed a consistent combination of > keystrokes/actions preceding the cessation of functionality. Similarly, I > haven't found a consistent way to restore it - I can generally do so, > eventually, but it seems to require different steps each time; such steps > might include changing the keyboard from polytonic Greek to English and back > again, using the language button on the desktop toolbar and/or using my > assigned key combinations (in case these are significant, I use <ctrl + alt + > 1> to change to the polytonic Greek and <ctrl + alt + 0> to change to the > English layout; <Left Alt + Shift> changes between languages (default)); > clicking an empty area of the desktop to lose the focus from Writer; giving > the focus to a different document; and so on. > Any idea what I might be doing to cause LO Writer to go awry (prevention is > better than cure)? Or the reason why it might be going wrong? Or if there is, > in fact, a consistent way to restore it (but I just haven't found it yet)? > Any helpful info gratefully received! > /Gary > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
