Re: Shortcuts to symbols?

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 10:38:19 pm Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:
> I am writing Esperanto and have to enter the characters c, g, h, j
> and s with a ^ over them. As it is, I have to insert these as special
> characters; is there a way to create shortcuts to them?

On a related note, back in Ancient Days (1984 onwards) my Macintosh 
allowed you to enter "special characters" that weren't visible on the 
keyboard from the keyboard instead of a GUI[1], by using the equivalent 
of the Alt key. Mac users will know it as the Option key. E.g. I'd 
type "Option-e e" to get è and "Option-p" to get π.

Even Windows allows you to type Alt-nnn on the numeric keypad, where nnn 
is a three-digit integer, to enter the ANSI character nnn.

This is *much* faster than having to call up a GUI to select and insert 
characters. It would be a great feature if I could define an arbitrary 
keymap which is triggered by a single command, say F6. Then I could 
type "F6 p" to get π, "F6 ^ s" to get ŝ, and "F6 ^ C" to get Ĉ, or 
whatever key mapping I defined. Or I could insert arbitrary Unicode 
characters by typing a decimal or hex code: a leading zero would imply 
hexadecimal, no leading zero implies decimal.

It would be an even better feature if that was usable across all of KDE, 
not just KOffice, but I realise this is the wrong list for that :)




[1] Being a Mac, naturally there was a GUI available as well: the 
Keyboard desk accessory. And if you don't know what a desk accessory 
is, consider yourself lucky that you have never needed to program a 
single-tasking PC.



-- 
Steven
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