2013/6/23 Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]>: > One tip: in many versions (all? I haven't checked) of OpenOffice it can be > difficult (impossible?) to insert a curly quote into the Replace box from > /Insert /Special Characters.
Compose >" → ” Compose <" → “ Compose ," → „ Note that the Compose key should not be hold while typing the other characters, that's why there is no ”+” after ”Compose”. Just press Compose (which key it is depends on your settings, I use Caps Lock for Compose which I find very convenient), release it, press the first character, release it, press the second one and release it. Sometimes there are three characters to press, like Compose --. for – (n-dash) and Compose --- for — (m-dash). Or there is, of course, the Unicode way: Ctrl+Shift+u 201c → “ Ctrl+Shift+u 201d → ” Ctrl+Shift+u 201e → „ The method is slightly different for different software and operating systems. These work with most GNU/Linux distributions unless you try to type those characters in the Opera web browser (which I do right now). If so, replace ”Ctrl+Shift+u <code>” with ”<code> Ctrl+Shift+x”. I am sure there are other software out there than Opera that requires a slightly different approach… Johnny Rosenberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
