Gillian Barrington wrote: > I have now trawled through the special characters charts in Open Office and > found, in some obscure place, the symbols I am looking for. Thanks for > your time. > I have to say it would be easier to search for stuff like this is the > headings were clearer eg. search the character map for 'music'. From a > non-techy person's viewpoint this is all very time consuming and does not > appear logical. > > Gillian
Gillian; The problem is that the character map is font dependent and not all fonts have the same glyphs and if they do they may not be in the same area. If this is something that you do frequently it may behoove you to find a font that has the the glyphs that you need and install it on your machine. That way it will be available to AOO. The following search string typed into Google came back with many hits. Regards Keith > > On 7 August 2016 at 23:23, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 08/07/2016 02:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> I am very frustrated in trying to find answers to questions about Open >>> Office, it all sounds too technical. >>> The main problem I have at present is trying to type in text the symbols >>> found in music: I have a sharp symbol on my keyboard but none of the >>> others, particularly needing the flat symbol. >>> I have looked all over the character map as advised in your Help but it >>> just isn’t there. The only way I can do it is to find an old document >>> containing it and copy and paste. Surely this can’t be right? >>> >>> I am using an HP Pavilion x360 laptop with windows 10. Like many modern >>> laptops it has no number pad or num lock key so I can’t access Alt codes. >>> >>> Please help. >>> >>> Gillian >>> >>> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >>> >>> >>> Don't just b♯, b♭. These symbols were typed using a Compose key in >> Linux. There is at least one program that will provide a compose key in >> Windows. >> >> Here is the download site for WinCompose: https://github.com/S...evar/wi >> ncompose <https://github.com/SamHocevar/wincompose> >> >> And here is the site that leads to it: https://autohotkey.com/board/t >> opic/92511-wincompose-a-robust-compose-key-for-windows/ >> >> The sharp symbol is made by Compose ##. ♯ >> The flat symbol is made by Compose # b ♭ >> And a natural is made by Compose # f ♮ >> >> Note that the letters are case-sensitive! >> >> You can also make them by Unicode. I don't know how to do Unicode in >> Windows, but the Unicodes for the symbols are >> >> sharp: 266F >> >> flat: 266D >> >> natural: 266E >> >> You can make lots of other things with Compose: all the diacritical marks >> for European languages, currency symbols, fractions., some Greek letters. >> >> Go to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GtkComposeTable >> >> Hope that helps! --doug >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >
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