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

How do you access the extra characters from the keyboard? (I used to use ubuntu onboard onscreen 
keyboard which was very useful, especially for clasical greek, but since upgrading ubuntu to 18.04 
i havent been able to get it to work for extended characters)     On Friday, 9 August 2019, 
12:04:36 BST, James Knott <james.knott@jknott.net> wrote:  
 
 On 2019-08-09 03:16 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > 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 use xmodmap for that, e.g.:
>
> /usr/local/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 33 = p P 0x00a7 0x00a7'
>
> provides the paragraph character.
>
> /usr/local/bin/xmodmap -e 'keycode 26 = e E 0x20ac 0x20ac'
>
> yields the EURO currency symbol.

I use the International U.S. English layout, which provides a lot of
extra characters.


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