Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Spanish/French Accent Marks

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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