Re: [libreoffice-users] Use of Spanish accents in Libreoffice

At 16:08 30/12/2015 -0500, Arthur Luthold wrote:
> How do you type in accents, the tilde, or the two dots (umlaut in german)?

You can insert characters that don't occur on your keyboard in various ways.

o Go to Insert | Special Character... and scroll down to find the character.

o Once you have any accented character in your 
text, copy and paste it - or the word containing 
it, as necessary - where you need it again.

o Type a suitable code for what you need - 
perhaps #n for n-tilde or #u for u-umlaut. After 
you have completed typing, use Edit | Find & 
Replace... to replace your codes by the correct 
characters. This way, you don't have to use 
Insert | Special Character... more than once per accented character.

o Do something similar using AutoCorrect. There 
are built-in examples of this: blase is corrected 
to blasé, cliche to cliché, and so on. You could 
add your own: manana to mañana, funf (or fuenf) to fünf, and so on.

o Enter the material without accents, mark the 
relevant material as the appropriate languages, 
install spelling dictionaries for Spanish and 
German if necessary, and use a spelling check to 
massage your text into shape (checking carefully 
afterwards or as you go, of course).

o But this question is really one for your 
operating system (not LibreOffice), as this may 
have ways of interpreting keystroke combinations 
as accented characters. In Windows, for example, 
you can hold down the Alt key and type various 
four-digit codes on the numeric keypad to create 
accented characters. A quick web search should show you these codes.

o If you have a Spanish or German keyboard, you 
could use that. Even without such a keyboard, if 
you know where accents and accented characters 
would appear on it, you can teach your operating 
system to interpret what you are typing as if 
from such an alternative keyboard. In either 
case, you will need to install the additional 
keyboard type(s); you can then switch easily between these as you are typing.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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