2013/1/21 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org>: > On Windows,
and all other operating systems, 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 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. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug [mailto:dmcgarr...@optonline.net] > Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 23:25 > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [Inserting special characters (and Word Perfect)] > > On 01/21/2013 01:28 AM, Brian Barker wrote: >> At 15:14 20/01/2013 -0500, Doug McGarrett wrote: >>> While we're at it: The other thing WP can do (Ctrl-W) is insert all >>> sorts of characters that are not on the keyboard, and many are not >>> attainable by the Compose key either. I think there are 10 screens >>> worth of characters and symbols, each one having some 40 or so >>> available. At some point, MS Word actually copied this verbatim, >>> Ctrl-W and all, but then they took it out--maybe the WP people sued >>> them. That must have been about 1990. So I don't know if OO can put >>> that feature in, or if WP would sue them. But it sure is handy >>> sometimes. >> >> Do you mean like Insert | Special Character...? If you like keyboard >> shortcuts, it's Alt+I, P. >> >> I trust this helps. >> >> Brian Barker >> > Very good, Brian. I didn't know that this was there. I'm not sure if > it's as complete as the WP version, but it's close, if it's not equal. > > --doug > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
