openoffice/abiword unicode font

nightfrost · 2005-11-30 12:25:28

I'm trying to use a unicode font with openoffice/abiword for some translations to ancient Greek. I have a unicode font that I'd like to use, but the only way I can get Greek letters is by going to the "insert special characters"-dialog and insert one letter. Needless to say, that becomes rather tedious. Does anyone know how to automate that? I'd like to just write the document like I do with English text..

jakob · 2005-11-30 13:57:32

Don't you have a greek keyboard layout? I guess that should work!

But pls dont ask me if there is a layout for ancient Greek though i think you have good chances

nightfrost · 2005-11-30 14:44:40

Thanks so much; I competely forgot about that. Although, at first I couldn't change to the greek keymap (although I could change to all others). Turned out I just had to re-pacman libxklavier for some reason. It seems to work somewhat now (just need to get the hang of how to add spiritus and accents to vowels). Cheers!

nightfrost · 2005-11-30 15:53:16

I've set the keymap to be polytonic

setxkbmap -model pc105 -layout el -variant polytonic

But I'm having serious problems to get all the spiriti, accents, etc. Only, the acute accent works. Any ideas?

jakob · 2005-11-30 20:00:27

Have you tried it with compose key?

nightfrost · 2005-11-30 20:27:30

composekey? what's that? never heard of it (searching right now).

nightfrost · 2005-12-03 15:21:24

I can't get to terms with compose key. But I can't help thinking that this should definitely work with dead keys. The problem is that when I press a dead key and then space, or a dead key and then the same key again, I do get the character showing. But when I press the dead key and then a vowel key, nothing happens. This is true for all dead keys except the acute accent.

I'm getting pretty desperate about this...

jakob · 2005-12-05 22:05:22

i think with composekey enabled e.g

Compose key + "/" + "o" makes the combination out of them.

to set a composekey, type
setxkbmap -option compose:rwin
and right windowskey is your composekey... unfortunately this doesn't work for me atm... have to check my layout, i guess, but have a try

nightfrost · 2005-12-05 23:20:59

Hmm... so that's compose key. Seems a lot more intuitive than the use of dead keys. Unfortunately, I'm still out of luck on it... no workie... :-(

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#1 2005-11-30 12:25:28

openoffice/abiword unicode font

#2 2005-11-30 13:57:32

Re: openoffice/abiword unicode font

#3 2005-11-30 14:44:40

Re: openoffice/abiword unicode font

#4 2005-11-30 15:53:16

Re: openoffice/abiword unicode font

#5 2005-11-30 20:00:27

Re: openoffice/abiword unicode font

#6 2005-11-30 20:27:30

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#7 2005-12-03 15:21:24

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#8 2005-12-05 22:05:22

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#9 2005-12-05 23:20:59

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