Macros in OpenOffice 2

[David M]

[This is a test message: I'm reposting part of my previous message
(without the euro sign) to see if that may have caused the mess-up with
the special characters and symbols that seems to have occurred in my
original message. Interestingly, the message came back to me (via gmane)
seemingly intact..

NB: There is no new content in this message!]


The following keys act as accents *after the compose key has been pressed*:

' = acute, eg e + ' = é
` = grave, eg a + ` = Ã 
^ = circumflex, eg a + ^ = â
, = cedilla, eg c + , = ç

~ = tilde, eg n + ~ = ñ

" = umlaut, eg u + " = ü 
(" = <shift>-' on any sensible keyboard layout (eg, US) ;-)

Scandinavian letters are as follows:

a + a = å
o + / = ø
a + e = æ

Should you ever need to use our Pommie currency, it can be entered on a
US keyboard configured as above as: <compose> + l + - = £  ;-)

(Strangely, this one no longer seems to work in OpenOffice (Breezy
version))

Also:

y + = = ¥
^ + 0 = ° (degrees)
o + _ = º (numero (number (m))
a + _ = ª (number (f))
c + o = ©
^ + 2 = ²
: + - = ÷
etc, etc..

As you can see, most of these key pairs mimic the shape (or sound) of the 
characters that they represent, so it soon becomes easy to remember
them.

I haven't yet sussed out how to type µ, nor [EUR] using this technique 
(so I still have to resort to pasting these in). The latter symbol has 
its own issues, character-set-wise, of course, which is far too big an 
issue to go into here.. :-(

[aside: I wonder if that's what caused the mess-up? I shouldn't have
been able to paste a euro sign successfully in ISO-8859-1]


Hope this helps,

Viel Spaß!



David.


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