2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan <johnjas...@gmail.com> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:12:37 +0100 > M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> dijo: > > >2011/1/24 John Jason Jordan <johnjas...@gmail.com> > > > >> 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. > > >John Jason, on my 105-key standard Scandinavian keyboard with Ubuntu > >10.10 installed, «¡» is obtained by holding the «Alt-Gr» key down and > >pressing «1» (on my keyboard, «Shift + 1» gives «!») and «¿» by doing > >«Alt Gr + Shift + +» (on my keyboard, «Shift + +» gives «?»). Hope > >this helps !... > > Apparently the Alt-Gr key is enabled when you select the Scandinavian > keyboard. With the US keyboard it is not, but as I discovered you can > set it to any key in System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > > Options. I could have set it to the right Alt key, but I decided to use > the otherwise useless Windows key instead. > > As it turns out I finally found the solution. I type the Windows key > *plus the shift key*, then the ? key (which requires shift again). > Ditto for the ¡. > > I finally found the table I was looking for. I don't know why the Gnome > people didn't include it in the Help, but here it is: > > http://hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html > > There are lots of other things you can do with the Compose key. >
As a matter of fact, I generally use the right-hand MS key as the compose key on my 105-key keyboard, for example if I want to type «š» or «č», but for the two glyphs you mentioned, «Alt Gr» works by default. In any event, good you resolved the problem !... Henri > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org > > -- *老朽 頓首 M Henri Day, PhD, MD Stadshagsvägen 22, 5tr S-112 50 Stockholm SUÈDE Tel : +46 8 6183098 Email : mhenri...@gmail.com Skype/Google Talk : mhenriday http://mhenriday.googlepages.com http://mhenriday.blogspot.com/ http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/mhenriday/*
