It is possible in Windows to use the Alt key and three digits to obtain special characters to place in a document. This combination does not work in Linux.
Is anyone able to tell me what keys I should use to achieve this.
Yes, I know I can use the Character Map menu but IO opnly use about half a dozen special characters and can easily remember the cvodes for those.
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Alt+??? ... (SOLVED)
by tenfoot on Wed May 09, 2012 5:47 am
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Re: Alt+??? ...
by xenopeek on Wed May 09, 2012 7:59 am
You can configure a compose key, which you can use to combine letters with diacritics. This is for easy typing of characters like: é è ê. See here how to do that: viewtopic.php?f=47&t=91310&start=0#p524850
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Re: Alt+??? ...
by Pilosopong Tasyo on Wed May 09, 2012 9:38 am
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Re: Alt+??? ...
by xenopeek on Wed May 09, 2012 10:15 am
This inspired me. Windows (at work) doesn't have a compose key, and it is a horror on Windows 7 to type in native language on an international keyboard if you need diacritics... I found AllChars, which gives you Linux' compose key function on Windows. Aaahhh 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/allchars/
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Re: Alt+??? ... (SOLVED)
by tenfoot on Wed May 09, 2012 5:03 pm
Thanks to all those who repied with suggestions on how to achieve what I wanted. I'll try each solution and choose one.
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There's so much bad in the best of us
And so much good in the worst of us
That it ill behoves any one of us
To judge even the least of us.
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To judge even the least of us.
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