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

Hi :)
Yesss!!  That is much better! :))  I got so fed up with Yahoo messing
things up that i set-up a GMail account and got it to pull in all my
new and old emails.  It took a lot of getting used to but eventually i
figured it out enough and now it saves me TONS of time.  Sadly GMail
also messes up layout and stuff sometimes but just not as often.

Anyway, the important thing is that your email looks great now.
Thanks and regards from
Tom :)


On 6 February 2015 at 10:40, Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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