On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:42:55 +0100 "Johnny Rosenberg" <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> dijo:
>> It has been a long time since I used Word, but I recall all you did >> was type Alt, then the letter combination (e.g., a:), and it >> automatically converted the letter combination. If the Alt was not >> followed by one of the built in letter combinations, then the Alt >> was ignored. >> >> I've looked everywhere, but I can't find such a feature in Writer. I >> find this surprising. >In Unix-like operating systems you have the Compose key (at least if >your desktop environment is Gnome), which is useful for things like >this. What you do is that you define a Compose key (I use the >otherwise useless Caps Lock for that, but other options are >available). It works like this: Press your Compose key → release it → >press " → release → press O → release → the result is Ö. >Looks complicated, but just try it. You need to press three keys to >create an Ö or any of the other characters, like á, ë, œ, Ø, ø and so >on. This is what I was looking for. I assumed it would be in OOo, but this is even better because it is system-wide. I use Gnome on Fedora 14, but I have never looked at the keyboard settings. Using your suggestion I changed the useless Windows key to a compose key and now I can get the diacritics I need. The only things I am lacking are ¿, and ¡. I can't figure out what the secret key is to get those. E.g., for á I type press the Windows key, type an apostrophe and then the a. The Windows "compose" key turns the apostophe into a dead key for the acute accent, so the "secret key" is the apostrophe. But I can't figure out what the secret keys for ¿ and ¡ are. There must be a table somewhere in the Gnome documentation, but I can't find it. Thanks for the information! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
