[opensuse] Special figures in OOWriter
In Open Office Writer, there is a large table of special characters, and if you snap on one, it comes up with a format like this: U+00A9 (169) which is the copyright symbol. Now supposing you're writing something that will refer to copyrighted material often, probably there is a way to use the code "U+00A9 (169)" somehow to avoid having to go back to the table and find the symbol every time. I have been unable to figure out how to do that. It was easy in WordPerfect, which had similar tables; you hit ^W and the number, and it emplaced the symbol in the text. There must be a way to do the same sort of thing in OO. So how? --TIA--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Friday 29 January 2010 07:14:31 pm Doug McGarrett wrote:
In Open Office Writer, there is a large table of special characters, and if you snap on one, it comes up with a format like this:
U+00A9 (169)
which is the copyright symbol. Now supposing you're writing something that will refer to copyrighted material often, probably there is a way to use the code "U+00A9 (169)" somehow to avoid having to go back to the table and find the symbol every time. I have been unable to figure out how to do that. It was easy in WordPerfect, which had similar tables; you hit ^W and the number, and it emplaced the symbol in the text. There must be a way to do the same sort of thing in OO. So how?
Doug, Not exactly what you asked, but have a look at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ComposeSpecialCharacters Also, for the copyright symbol at least, try 1) Hold down right shift, press right control, then release both 2) type the keys 'o' and then 'c' Many other characters are available this way. -- D©n -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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On Friday 29 January 2010 07:14:31 pm Doug McGarrett wrote:
In Open Office Writer, there is a large table of special characters, and if you snap on one, it comes up with a format like this:
U+00A9 (169)
which is the copyright symbol. Now supposing you're writing something that will refer to copyrighted material often, probably there is a way to use the code "U+00A9 (169)" somehow to avoid having to go back to the table and find the symbol every time. I have been unable to figure out how to do that. It was easy in WordPerfect, which had similar tables; you hit ^W and the number, and it emplaced the symbol in the text. There must be a way to do the same sort of thing in OO. So how?
Doug,
Not exactly what you asked, but have a look at
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ComposeSpecialCharacters
Also, for the copyright symbol at least, try
1) Hold down right shift, press right control, then release both 2) type the keys 'o' and then 'c'
Many other characters are available this way.
In gnome there is another method: Ctrl+Shift+u, which produces an undelined "u". Then type the number (A9 is ok), and enter. You get '©'. It is an estandard (ISO 14755). *** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input Hex input Clause 5.1 of ISO 14755 describes a Basic method whereby a beginning sequence is followed by the hexadecimal representation of the codepoint and the ending sequence. On some systems, this is limited to the BMP (characters up to U+FFFF). An example of an ISO 14755-conformant system is GTK+, where the beginning sequence is CTRL+SHIFT+U and the ending sequence is null. In some older versions Ctrl and Shift must be held down while entering the number In GTK + versions before 2.10, Ctrl-Shift-U is not used, only Ctrl-Shift-[hex number] *** (previously posted by Camaleón on the Spanish list) AFAIK, kde does not support this. And I haven't tried inside OOo. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktkDnYACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VsPQCfXWdUevXmaAbSuLZPsj7Mk3tv 4H8AniBbZ5chXiwvOg79uo77cswfHeUv =dZKx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2010-01-30 at 11:48 +0100, I wrote:
In gnome there is another method: Ctrl+Shift+u, which produces an undelined "u". Then type the number (A9 is ok), and enter. You get '©'.
It is an estandard (ISO 14755). ...
AFAIK, kde does not support this.
Ah, I read that it seems it is a bug they are not interested in solving: Qt/X11 does not allow input of Unicode characters using Ctrl+Shift followed by the character code http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-8 - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktkErcACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XG2QCggNm7gRFPxIu8TL3M6KgsgSHY Gq0AniWrLGupcAmiE3WdESpn/EwGzIRe =UXax -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Carlos E. R.
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Don Raboud
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Doug McGarrett