At 12:40 PM 9/7/2006 -0700, PerfectReign wrote:
On Thu, September 7, 2006 11:47 am, lerninlinux@comcast.net wrote:
I know it's out there, but I have had a long last few days, What is the terminology I am looking for, to allow me to map keys to unshown symbols. I am needing ones like degrees, TM , that type of thing.
Are you thinking "Dead Keys"?
I'm not quite sure if that's what you're looking for, but that's the layout you'd use in teh US to - for example - create an umlaut character or an accent character.
I have my Personal Settings > REgional and Accessibility > Keyboard Layout set to US English(us) with a Layout variant of alt-intl. This gives me "dead keys" which I can use. For example the ' and " characters don't respond on first click I hit ' + a to get an accented a when I'm typing in Spanish and " + u to get an umlaut in German, when I'm typing in German.
-- Kai Ponte www.perfectreign.com || www.4thedadz.com
The problem with not having decent printed manuals is that it's hard to determine what may already exist. OO may have some kind of feature which would give you odd-ball typographical sysmols. It might even work like MS Word, which I _think_ uses alt 0*** where the *** is 3 digits on the numeric k/b. (I don't use Word, so I'm not sure.) The three digits amount to the ASCII codes above 128. In Word Perfect, you would use ctl-w and get about 10 charts of symbols to select from. --doug