Re: [libreoffice-users] LO (writer, esp.) and alternative keyboard layouts

I'll try; it was not like that when I sent it, that's what yahoo did to it :-(See if below is any 
better; unfortunately I can't seem to get many font options :-(/G.
        
Hi :)
Blimey that is really difficult to read!  Any chance of breaking it
down into shorter paragraphs with a bigger gap between paragraph?
Regards from
Tom :)




On 6 February 2015 at 10:11, Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
I've been having some trouble lately using in Writer especially when using alternative keyboard 
mappings (Windows 7). Yesterday, for example, I was using a mapping that was basically English but 
which included macron vowels (that's vowels with a bar over the top, used, e.g., to indicate a long 
vowel in works of reference for Latin). I found that the assigned key combination - in this case, 
AltGr+vowel - was giving me a vowel with something like an acute accent over it instead of a bar - 
though the key combination was working OK in other applications, e.g. WordPad and even the humble 
NotePad.It did start to work, however; but in order to get it to do so, I had to set the keyboard 
in the language bar whilst the LO document was active. Is this the expected behaviour? Should LO 
override the locale settings in cases like this? (wondering).

> Again, whilst using the polytonic Greek keyboard, I have noticed that from time to time the key 
> combinations required to obtain some of the special characters "stop working" - that is, the key 
> presses appear to be detected, but they stop having the desired effect. An example: to obtain an 
> alpha with a rough breathing, acute accent and iota subscript, I would have to first press the 
> combination <altGr + shift + '/'>, release those keys, and then press 'a' (for alpha). It's the 
> <altGr + shift> combination that stops working here; when I press 'a' I get an alpha alright, but 
> without the special diacritics (I think that's the right word).Using a combination without 
> <shift> and/or <altGr> still works; e.g. I can press (and release) '/' and then press 'a' and get 
> an alpha with smooth breathing and acute, which is the expected behaviour.

> I've no idea why this sometimes goes awry; the focus does not leave the document in question, and 
> I haven't noticed a consistent combination of keystrokes/actions preceding the cessation of 
> functionality. Similarly, I haven't found a consistent way to restore it - I can generally do so, 
> eventually, but it seems to require different steps each time; such steps might include changing 
> the keyboard from polytonic Greek to English and back again, using the language button on the 
> desktop toolbar and/or using my assigned key combinations (in case these are significant, I use 
> <ctrl + alt + 1> to change to the polytonic Greek and <ctrl + alt + 0> to change to the English 
> layout; <Left Alt + Shift> changes between languages (default)); clicking an empty area of the 
> desktop to lose the focus from Writer; giving the focus to a different document; and so on.

> Any idea what I might be doing to cause LO Writer to go awry (prevention is better than cure)? Or 
> the reason why it might be going wrong? Or if there is, in fact, a consistent way to restore it 
> (but I just haven't found it yet)?

> Any helpful info gratefully received!
> /Gary

   
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