Thank you kindly for the reply, and please bear with me, I did find & understand the instructions for use of non-English "spelling" i Open Office - BUT, now I see that my original query would have been clearer had I used the terms "symbols" & "special characters"
My specific question relates to assigning shortcut keys to insert "Latin Extended-A Polish letters directly from the keyboard in only one step, to avoid the cumbersome process of, for each letter, taking 4 steps by selecting "Insert", then "special characters", then choosing the character with the mouse, then input it in the document. For comparison, Microsoft Word, in its Insert menu, in addition to "Special characters" (of the like you have in OpenOffice) has a "Symbols" (non-english letters, distinguished there from "Special Characters") option, allowing for the chosen letter to be "assigned" a key combination, eg. Alt+character from the standard "qwerty" keyboard (this method allows me uninterupted flow when typing in a non-english language). Can I achieve similar in OpenOffice? I did try to find it in OpenOffice, but perhaps I am missing something obvious . Hope this makes sense. Regards Stan ----- Original Message ----- From: Harold Fuchs To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [users] use of non-english spelling characters in creating data On 14/04/2008, Drew Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: On 14/04/2008, S & H Manterys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am evaluating Open Office for suitability in my non-profit small library catalogue. I have Microsoft Windows XP 2000, with Microsoft Proofing Tools for input of non-english spelling. Does Open Office database cater for non-english spelling, and how? Thank you Stan Manterys <snip> Hope this helps. Harold is correct with his description regarding the word processor module in OpenOffice.org. However to your question, data entry controls in OpenOffice.org do not automatically perform any spell checking functions. It would be possible to implement something using scripting and all the features Harold touched on are available via the application built in scripting engine and API. Before I tell you that this would be easy or not though, can you tell me how you would want it "catered for" as you put it? Thanks Drew Whoops again. Not my day. Simply didn't read the question properly. Thank you, Drew. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
