Re: [libreoffice-users] Compose key is being ignored

["J.A. de Vries" <hdv.jadev@gmail.com>]

On 2012-07-16 12:25, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> I can not reproduce the problem, but I use another operating system
> (Ubuntu 10.10) and an older LibreOffice (3.3.4), the LibreOffice
> website version. Maybe this is a LibreOffice 3.5.4 problem? I would
> try to install the most recent stable version, which seems to be 3.5.5
> at the moment.
> 
> If you can't make it work, an obvious workaround would be to use the
> Auto correction feature in LibreOffice. I think ”Straße” is already in
> the list if you set the character language style to German. If not,
> you can easily add it yourself in whatever language you want.

I thought of that, but that works if you only have a couple of words
with non-standard characters. I write a lot in Swedish and German (among
other languages), both languages with lots of those characters. So I'll
probably loose more time building replacement lists than just making a
row of the most occurring charters in vim and copying that to each
document after opening it. From that row I copy the characters needed
when writing. It is cumbersome, but as a temporary measure it is workable.

> But really, it should work. I use Caps Lock for compose, just like
> you, and it worked fine in LibreOffice Calc 3.3.4. I will install a
> more recent version soon and try, I've just been lazy lately, or maybe
> busy (I'm in the middle of my vacation right now)…

I've used both KDE and dpkg-reconfigure to map the compose key to
Capslock and in *all* other applications that works just fine. But
somehow it doesn't in LibreOffice (it does in the version provided by
aptitude).

Grx HdV

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