On 11/14/2011 07:50 PM, SUZY SHEPHERD wrote:
Hi,
All I would like to know is how to add French accents in Open Office
text documents.
Thanks,
Susie
In Windows, you get a free program called AllChars and make one of your
keys a Compose key.
In Linux, there are various ways--some of them built in to the system,
as in KDE, to make a
Compose key. Look for "keyboard." I have made my right CTRL key Compose
in Windows and
Linux. If you have a Microsoft keyboard (I don't) then the right MS key
is good--it doesn't seem
to do anything else. When you hit Compose, it only holds for a few
seconds, then the key
goes back to what it was originally used for.
I don't know how to do this on a Mac--that may already have a Compose
key, I don't know.
To make an accented character, you hit the Compose key, then you type
two keys, the letter
and the accent or other gadget: á à é è ó ò ú ù ç ô where the accent
looks like the thing you
want on top of or under the character. This also works for German: Ä ä Ö
ö Ü ü ß (that last is
with Compose ss). In Spanish, you can get ñ and ¿ ? and ¡ ! You can also
then get some other
special characters not normally found: £ ¥ € ¢ ° ½ ⅓ ¼ (The degree
symbol is Control oo.)
This arrangement works for everything you type, whether in a word
processor, or in a terminal,
or wherever you are.
--doug
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