LO 5.1.1.3, Windows 10 1. Background: After 22 years of using MS Word, I decided to switch to LO Writer, which entailed losing hundreds of keyboard shortcuts I'd set up for inserting special characters, such as IPA. Recreating the system in LO by creating a macro for each character and assigning it a keyboard shortcut was too much labour, and the ComposeSpecialCharacters extension for LO is insufficiently extensive (and apparently not customizable). So my chosen solution was to edit the autocorrect file (DocumentList.xml in acor_en-GB.dat), adding about 700 entries and deleting all the unwanted ones (that deal with misspellings).
2. Behaviour of autocorrect for inserting special characters. From experiment, I find that if the to-be-replaced text starts and ends with a colon, then the replacement works in any environment, such as word-internally, but otherwise it works only if the to-be-replaced text is in restricted environments, such as preceded and followed by a space, but not word-internally. For example :zh: can be set up to insert ʒ (ezh) into the middle of an orthographic word, but `zh cannot be. 3. First question: Is (2) a correct characterization of LO's workings? I've not found any relevant online documentation. 4. Second question: Can the behaviour described in (2) be modified? (a) For example, is there a way to make it possible for `zh to insert ʒ (ezh) into the middle of a word? (This would save me having to reedit the 700 autocorrect items I set up for special characters, and it would also save keystrokes when inputting the short to-be-replaced forms.) (b) If autocorrect items that work word-internally must start and end with a colon, is there some way to change the delimiting character from a colon to something else? (Main reason: I already use flanking colons like :this: as a key notational device in my own work.) TIA --And. -- 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