Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19910
Attach special character to special key combination
Last modified: 2003-09-25 21:13:42 UTC
In the keyboard configuration it is very hard to easily bind a special key combination to a special character, e.g. bind <CTRL>-<E> to get the character é. Using dead keys is one workaround, using a BASIC macro is another one. While the first is good for people like me who use these accents all the time (when typing German, French is another example which needs numerous accents), however when typing Dutch there are only a few characters which needs such an accent, and using a few of these special keys would be a great solution. Many word processors (e.g. WordPerfect at least since 5.1, Word since it is for Windows) can easily record a keystroke (see also issue 19909) and then bind it to a special character. Using a macro for this works, this is not for the average user. In my case: my girlfriend wants to type Chinese, and insert some special interpunction. I have spent a few hours figuring out how that would be possible - and ended up with a set of macros, and an impossibility to assign it to our favourite key combination. In WP and in Word I have done the same in minutes, she could have done it herself there.
reassigned to bh
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duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 4579 ***
closing duplicate