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diff --git a/helpcontent2/source/text/shared/guide/insert_specialchar.xhp b/helpcontent2/source/text/shared/guide/insert_specialchar.xhp new file mode 100644 index 000000000..5c8b40eaa --- /dev/null +++ b/helpcontent2/source/text/shared/guide/insert_specialchar.xhp @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> + + + +<!-- + * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. + * + * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. + * + * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: + * + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed + * with this work for additional information regarding copyright + * ownership. 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You may obtain a copy of + * the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 . + --> + + + <helpdocument version="1.0"> +<meta> +<topic id="textsharedguideinsert_specialcharxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> +<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Inserting Special Characters</title> +<filename>/text/shared/guide/insert_specialchar.xhp</filename> +</topic> +</meta> +<body> +<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154927"><bookmark_value>characters; special</bookmark_value> +<bookmark_value>inserting; special characters</bookmark_value> +<bookmark_value>special characters</bookmark_value> +<bookmark_value>text; inserting special characters</bookmark_value> +<bookmark_value>accents</bookmark_value> +<bookmark_value>compose key to insert special characters</bookmark_value> +</bookmark> +<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154927" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><variable id="insert_specialchar"><link href="text/shared/guide/insert_specialchar.xhp" name="Inserting Special Characters">Inserting Special Characters</link> +</variable></paragraph> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147576" xml-lang="en-US">This function allows you to insert special characters, such as check marks, boxes, and telephone symbols, into your text.</paragraph> +<list type="unordered"> +<listitem> +<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3155535" xml-lang="en-US">To view a selection of all characters, choose <menuitem>Insert - Special Character</menuitem>.</paragraph> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3147275" xml-lang="en-US">In the large selection field double-click on the desired character, which is inserted in the current document.</paragraph> +</listitem> +<listitem> +<paragraph role="listitem" id="par_id3153031" xml-lang="en-US">In any text input field (such as the input fields in the <emph>Find & Replace</emph> dialog) you can press Shift+<switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">Command</caseinline><defaultinline>Ctrl</defaultinline></switchinline>+S to open the <emph>Special Characters</emph> dialog.</paragraph> +</listitem> +</list> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155630" xml-lang="en-US"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX">At present there are three ways of entering letters with accents directly from the keyboard. +</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154897" xml-lang="en-US"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX"><emph>Solaris:</emph> Using a Sun keyboard. First press the Compose key to the right of the space bar, then enter the first and second modifiers. +</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX"><emph>Linux / NetBSD:</emph> Using the dead-keys. In an xterm window first press the (´) or (`) key. The character should not appear on the screen. Now press a letter, such as "e". The e is given an accent, é or è. If not, then check in the XF86Config file if a "nodeadkeys" XkbdVariant has been loaded there and replace it. You may also have set the environment variable SAL_NO_DEADKEYS, which deactivates the dead-keys. +</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US"><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="UNIX"><emph>All Unix systems:</emph> (Alt Graph) as additional compose key. The (Alt Graph) key can work in $[officename] like the Compose key, if you set the environment variable SAL_ALTGR_COMPOSE. The (Alt Graph) key must trigger a mode_switch, so, for example, xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_R = Mode_switch" must be set. First press (Alt Graph), then the first modifier, then the second modifier. The characters are combined as described on a Solaris system in the file /usr/openwin/include/X11/Suncompose.h. +</caseinline></switchinline></paragraph> +<embed href="text/shared/00/00000004.xhp#related"/> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149047" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/shared/01/04100000.xhp" name="Special Characters">Special Characters</link></paragraph> +<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153896" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/shared/01/06040200.xhp" name="AutoCorrect">AutoCorrect</link></paragraph> +</body> +</helpdocument> |