Re: [libreoffice-users] Special characters help

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Ken-GSS
<ken_haugh@globalsouthservices.com> wrote:
> In the T language project, we are using Libre Office 3.5.5.3 and would like to use the special 
> characters needed for several of the languages.
>
> For example in one of the languages we need a special “l”. The Unicode of that character is an l 
> with a superscripted macron. The combined characters come out like this: l̄ or for the capital L̄
> This is easy in another program we are using. Just put the desired changes into the autocorrect 
> file and the special characters take care of themselves. But whenever I try to use the 
> autocorrect in Libre Office ( I tell it to make “ll” become “l̄”) it only works if ll is typed in 
> isolation. Otherwise the program ignores the autocorrect file. What can I do to make Libre Office 
> change every occurance of “ll” to “l̄”? I will need to be able to do this for at least 22 
> characters over 3 languages (if you include capital and lower case).

I am not sure that LibreOffice has such support to replace characters.
This sounds like the FindAndReplace functionality, but in your case
you will make mistakes because the digraphs are too small. 'small'
would be changed to 'smal̄' and so on.

Ideally, you should create keyboard layouts for these scripts. In this
way, you will be able to type properly in all programs, including
Firefox.

Depending on the OS you are using, you can try Keyman,
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/
A lot of minority languages have created their own layouts for Keyman,
and are able to type directly.
You use a shortcut to switch between English and other keyboard layouts.

Hope this helps,
Simos

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