Subject: Re: Improvements?
From: James Silverton (jim.silverton@erols.com)
Date: Sat Jul 29 2000 - 07:27:45 CDT
Brian J. Fillery wrote:
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> Insert Symbols.
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> It would be useful to have the French and German accented letters which are
> often needed in English. The English pound sign. The fractions 1/4, 1/2, and
> 3/4 would be useful although it is possible to do these, and many others, with
> the Subscript and Superscript.
>
You can get a lot of characters with the "compose" feature of Linux. The
British Pound is (Compose) - l (ell not one) and the accented characters
are a bit more obvious, e.g. (Compose) ` e for the French e grave,
(Compose) " u for German umlaut u etc. The "(Compose)" key is the right
control key on my US keyboard. I don't know the standard keyboard used
in Australia. As has been indicated before, there are some different
combinations when the keyboard has letter keys in places different from
the US one.
A note to developers.
The Abiword icon has a neutral background as standard and this means
that you have to touch the symbol rather carefully. I used KDE's icon
editor to fill in the background with a suitable color and thus require
less precise pointing. For me, that is a vast improvement.
Best wishes,
Jim.
-- James V. Silverton Potomac, Maryland.
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