Re: [libreoffice-users] special characters from keyboard?

 I've tried (3), using \a for macron a,etc., and it sort of works, but, it seems, the character 
sequence is replaced in the text only when preceded by a space. Since this space is not removed 
when the replacement is made, and since the vast majority of macron characters are not at the 
beginning of a word, this space must be manually removed for each character required, and this 
makes the process almost as slow as inserting from the special characters.
Is there a way to get LO writer to recognise and replace the sequence even when it comes in the 
middle of a word or at the end?

Thanks
/Gary
     On Friday, 9 August 2019, 08:46:44 BST, Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze@documentfoundation.org> 
wrote:  
 
 This was requested long time ago in [1] while meanwhile we have the Recently Used section and I 
could imagine to provide access per shortcut to those items. However, there is the wish to extend 
this section [2] and that would break any shortcut approach. What you always can do is to create 
own entries in the replacement table of the autocorrect function [3].

[1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41981
[2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120753
[3] https://help.libreoffice.org/6.3/en-US/text/shared/01/06040200.html

On 09.08.19 08:56, gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>   Hi,
> I'm writing some Latin texts with long vowels indicated and so i'm frequently having to go to the 
> special characters dialog.
> I'm wondering if its possible to set up certain keys in LO so that pressing, e.g. ALT +A would 
> enter a with macron character (and SHIFT +ALT +A for the capital)?
>
> I've looked at tools>configure but can't yet see if there is a way to make a key combination 
> return a special character rather than execute a function. I've also quickly looked at 
> autocorrect but that doesn't seem to work on key combinations.
>
> I'm guessing what i need is a keyboard mapping option?
>
> I'm using LO 6.0.7.3 on ubuntu 18.04.08
>
> Thanks
> /Gary
>   

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