Re: French

On 11/14/2011 07:50 PM, SUZY SHEPHERD wrote:
> Hi,
> All I would like to know is how to add French accents in Open Office 
> text documents.
> Thanks,
> Susie
In Windows, you get a free program called AllChars and make one of your 
keys a Compose key.
In Linux, there are various ways--some of them built in to the system, 
as in KDE, to make a
Compose key. Look for "keyboard." I have made my right CTRL key Compose 
in Windows and
Linux. If you have a Microsoft keyboard (I don't) then the right MS key 
is good--it doesn't seem
to do anything else. When you hit Compose, it only holds for a few 
seconds, then the key
goes back to what it was originally used for.

I don't know how to do this on a Mac--that may already have a Compose 
key, I don't know.

To make an accented character, you hit the Compose key, then you type 
two keys, the letter
and the accent or other gadget: á à é è ó ò ú ù ç ô where the accent 
looks like the thing you
want on top of or under the character. This also works for German: Ä ä Ö 
ö Ü ü ß (that last is
with Compose ss). In Spanish, you can get ñ and ¿ ? and ¡ ! You can also 
then get some other
special characters not normally found: £ ¥ € ¢ ° ½ ⅓ ¼ (The degree 
symbol is Control oo.)

This arrangement works for everything you type, whether in a word 
processor, or in a terminal,
or wherever you are.

--doug

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