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On 05/05/2011 10:43 PM, noelhtaylor@gmail.com wrote:
Folks,

I have been following this discussion perhaps it is time for my story.

I teach Hebrew and Greek in a Chinese language school and must prepare material for students in those languages. I use Openoffice and now Libreoffice exclusively. I used to insert the needed characters special characters.

It wasn't enough to have the fonts. I wanted to work within OO and LO and needed a way to key these into my documents directly.

I finally found some really decent fonts (SIL) and a splendid keyboarding program from Tavultesoft www.tavultesoft.com and . Now I can type these languages nearly as easily as English ... accents ... jots ... tittles ... breathing marks ... everything. Some folks in a Greek monastery provided a Tavultesoft keyboard that runs inside OO and LO.

Tavultesoft is proprietary, but it has answered my problems (Even Chinese!). Maybe it will do for you as well.


This link goes to a list of "Best Free" keyboards. Tavultesoft seems to be a paid product.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-onscreen-keyboard-osk.htm#Click-N-Type

I used MS's version for a computer that required a USB mouse and keyboard since it did not have PS/2 plugins. I did not have a USB keyboard, so I had to use the on-screen one till I got a USB adapter for the keyboard I had. Now I use a remote desktop viewer program to use that number-crunching computer so I do not need desk space for it.

So these on-screen keyboards do work. I have an old tablet PC that defaults to a mixed English and Japanese keyboard layout, for whatever reason, but they do work when you need to use a different keyboard layout than English.

See also
Fonts for Scholars = http://scholarsfonts.net/
SIL Font catalogue = http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=font
Classical Text Editor = http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kvk/cte/


On May 5, 2011 6:01pm, nhtrader <jameskel@comcast.net> wrote:
Thanks for the help.



I installed the ComposeSpecialCharacter extension - no problems.



Although I have to admit it took me several attempts to set it up so that I

could get it work with this key combo:

A+`+shift+ctrl+z (5 keys).



However, it seems that the most frequently used accents are visible in the

table so it may be faster for me to just select the accent needed and press

insert.



As for the other option of letting the spell checker fix misspelled words,

well I'll try that another day. I think that I have currently have the

French dictionary installed but I can't be sure. It is listed in my

extensions so I would assume that it is installed and available. So when I

write my next paper I'll give this a try.



Thanks for your prompt replies.







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