accented letters

[carloseguizabal]

I have started to use OO to do some translations from English to Spanish, and like to find a way to assign accented vowels and and other common characters to keys (like Alt F9, Alt u, etc.) to facilitate typing.

Using OO vesion 1.1 for Win and for Linux.

Thanks.

[David]

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[quote="carloseguizabal" find a way to assign accented vowels and and other common characters to keys (like Alt F9, Alt u, etc.)[/quote]

It is possible to record a macro of yourself inserting a letter with "insert - special character" and then assign that macro to a key. Snag is, you seem to need to record in the font you are going to be typing in. I can't find a way to use alt-keys for macros (presumably because they are not guaranteed to be available in Unix) but you do have ctrl-0 to ctrl-9 available.

[carloseguizabal]

... Install the Spanish keyboard ... Thanks David, I'll try that.

[carloseguizabal]

... It is possible to record a macro of yourself inserting a letter with "insert - special character" ... I did some experimentation with macros last night and got to the point of assigning them to keys, but as you point out, I could not find alt-keys, so I'm using ctrl-keys as you sugested (thanks).

Perhaps somebody here can shed some ligh on how to make alt-keys available?

I recoreded again the macros today and tried them in diferent fonts (same document) but did not notice anything wrong... perhaps I'm missing your point?[/b]

[esperantisto]

I'd recommend downloading Andrew Pitonyak's Useful Macro Information For OpenOffice. There you'll find a macro for inserting Esperanto letters (somewhere around the page 133). Some code tweaking - and you have all the characters, you need.

[carloseguizabal]

I'd recommend downloading [url=http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.sxw]Andrew Pitonyak's ...

I downloaded it, and now to read .... Thanks for the pointer.