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

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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