It didn't work (the ctrl+shft+T then ' then e (and just e). But that's O.K. I got it from the only place where I really need it for now - StarOffice's Insert -> special character Thanks everybody! On Wednesday 10 October 2001 06:00 am, you wrote: > Kurt Granroth wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 October 2001 07:31 pm, Rick Rosinski wrote: > > > How can I get StarOffice to display a character in StarWord, StarCalc, > > > etc that can make a word like "Saute" show an apostrophe above the "e"? > > > If if cannot be done there, can I get a KDE program to get one up so > > > that I can cut and paste it into StarOffic? > > > > There are actually a couple of ways to do this. The most portable way is > > to use the special "compose" key and the right key codes. To make an > > accented e, you would do the following: > > > > ++t e ' > > > > The CTRL+SHIFT+T is the "magic" sequence. It says that the next TWO > > characters that you write will make up the special character. This works > > in (at least) all KDE apps, StarOffice, and Netscape. It should also > > work with all other Motif apps and Gtk/Gnome ones... but I don't have any > > more of either to test with. > > > > The best intro page I found on this during a VERY quick search with > > google was this: http://www.zenez.com/tmp/scouw7faq/cache/256.html > > > > You can see a list of all possible combinations using this command: > > % dumpkeys --compose-keys > > -- > > ----------------- > cool - but on my system, it was dumpkeys --compose-only > > In this case - and it worked in Netscape and in StarOffice (leaving me > somewhat convinced of universality), > > [Control-Shift-T] and then ` and then e gave me è > > Craig > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Rick Rosinski http://rickrosinski.com rick@rickrosinski.com