Hi Dennis,
Dennis E. Hamilton schrieb:
On Windows, there is also a Character Map utility in Accessories >
System Tools that lets you look through the various fonts for
characters you want and put them on the clip-board for pasting into
your document. I have it pinned to the Windows XP/7 Start Menu. (I
must remember to put it on the Task Bar on Windows 8).
Some fonts have quite extensive sets of Unicode Characters, including
Arial Unicode MS, Lucida Sans Unicode (a favorite for me) along with
special fonts (WebDings, WingDings, Symbol, MT Extra, ...), along
with the free fonts that LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice install.
For technical writing install the STIX-fonts from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/stixfonts/
For certain cases where I use some symbols repeatedly, I make up a
document that serves as a palette that I can copy and paste from.
Sometime I group 3-4 symbols together (such as ¬∀∃∧∨→↔), paste
wherever I need one of them and delete the unwanted ones. It can be
easier than roaming around in an Insertion palette.
Or you define macros for inserting special characters, and use them as
commands for an own toolbar. Use the character itself as text on the button.
The example inserts a character œ
153 (see below) is its unicode codepoint in hexadecimal. You see this
value in the dialog "Special character".
Sub OELigaturKlein
Dim doc as variant
Dim controller as variant
Dim textviewcursor as variant
doc = ThisComponent
controller = doc.getCurrentController()
textviewcursor = controller.getViewCursor()
Dim character as String
character = chr(clng("&H153"))
textviewcursor.setString(character)
textviewcursor.goRight(1, false)
End Sub
Kind regards
Regina
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