This chart might help:
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It really depends on your keyboard, Language and other applications' settings.
Acorn
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This chart might help:
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It really depends on your keyboard, Language and other applications' settings.
Acorn
That diacritics list is certainly helpful, Acorn! Thank you!
Thanks Acorn, that will come in handy as I often type in French and had to look up some the accented letters.
merci
I removed my previous post and those relating to it.
Well done Acorn. Very useful.
Hello Acorn,
I do think your approach is useful for most people. If there is need for more shortcuts, there is Wincompose (https://github.com/samhocevar/wincompose) that gives the possibility of custom shortcuts (and has a humongous set of default shortcuts). Personally, I find that its default shortcuts are a bit too much. However, the program can be totally customized by removing the check marks in Options, Composing, Sequences, and defining your own user-defined sequences in the .XCompose text file. The result can be very similar to AllChars which was a much used utility in older versions of Windows.
lex, thank you for the suggestion.Quote:
Originally Posted by lex
I actually prefer Character Map UWP that is a better replacement for the usual CharMap.
That too is overwhelming.
My best fall-back is an AutoHotKey script, CAPshift.ahk, which you can totally customise to your needs.
The MS Virtual (Touch) Keyboard for W11 seemingly has better diacritics.
Acorn
Have a look at copychar.cc ... you click on a character and it adds it to the clipboard for pasting. Not all characters work with Xara, but I find it very useful for a lot of items especially the fractions, in a number of programs.
Yes, I remember you plugging it before.Quote:
Originally Posted by ss-kalm
What I liked about it is the top line remembers which ones you copied and you can grab these again.
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Acorn
You have a better memory than I have then ...
...but I missed looking at the Info button top-right that separately allows the copy to Clipboard for the Unicode or HTML Code.
Brill.
I just created a naff Xara Widget:
Copy into a text editor and Save as CharCopy.xwr.Code:<XaraWidget>
<WidgetName>copychar.cc</WidgetName>
<CreateURL>https://copychar.cc</CreateURL>
<BrowserWidth>1024</BrowserWidth>
<BrowserHeight>800</BrowserHeight>
<WidgetHelp>
- Select any symbol or character.
- It is copied to your Clipboard.
- Click the Info button to see and copy Unicode or HTML Code as well.
- Press the Cancel button.
- Paste into your design.
</WidgetHelp>
</XaraWidget>
Mine is in a Widget Folder and is accessed through the Local Designs gallery.
XWR files are used to build Placeholders with body code; here you just close it.
It saves the need for a separate browser window.
Acorn
I am having no joy with the & and inverted ? and ! and the ligatured letters.
Gary, if you're not using a Unicode font they might not be there to show.Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
That said, i have rechecked and the shortcuts work in MS Word but not Xara!
My get out of jail free card is to change your Auto Correction dictionary to something like:
! ! you can press Ctrl+Z to undo any autocorrection
!! ¡ inverted exclamation mark
"" “” smart double quotes
'' ‘’ smart single quotes
(&) § section
(.) · middle dot
(/) ÷
(aa) å
(ae) æ ligature
(c) ©
(co) ℅
(d) ° degree
(e) €
(mu) µ
(oe) ø
(pc) ¶ pilcrow
(r) ®
(ss) ß
(tm) ™
+- ±
--- — em dash
... … ellipsis
1. 1.
1/2 ½
1/4 ¼
1/8 ⅛
3/4 ¾
3/8 ⅜
5/8 ⅝
7/8 ⅞
<< « left guillemet
>> » right guillemet
?? ¿?
Acorn
Arial and Georgia?
Gary, just checked they are all there in Arial so Xara must filter them away:Quote:
Originally Posted by gwpriester
- Shift+Alt+Ctrl+& is picked up by Xara as Shift+Alt+Ctrl+7, which is assigned to Disable Live Share. To re-enable, use Shift+Alt+Ctrl+6.
- Shift+Alt+Ctrl+! (Shift+Alt+Ctrl+1) & Shift+Ctrl+& are both unassigned.
- Shift+Ctrl+A is Paste Attributes.
- Shift+Ctrl+O is Open the Options Dialog.
Thank you for advising, I should have checked these.
Autocorrection guidance: https://helpandsupport.xara.com/xara...orrection.html.
This updates or creates a plain text file. Mine is autocorrect_en_GB.txt in %localappsdata%/Xara/(product)/<version), or thereabouts.
Acorn