<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Custom Shortcut Keys for Special Symbols" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41981#c6">Comment # 6</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Custom Shortcut Keys for Special Symbols" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41981">bug 41981</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:fios@akerbeltz.org" title="Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org>"> Michael Bauer</a> <pre>I agree, this would be very useful. It's too much to expect normal users to do this via scripts. In my work I require so many characters not on any keyboard I used to use the Microsoft Custom Keyboard Layout generator - until that starting breaking. Fortunately the Keyboard Layout Manager (commercial unfortunately) works very well instead but it would be better to have this within LO as an easy to use method rather than having people create their own layouts. One common problem though I've discovered with these is that great care must be taken in implemenation so that if there is a conflict with a system or LO shortcut, the LO shortcut should take precedence. For example, if I put ə onto Alt+E, depending on the scenario, Word used to read this as a hotkey. Or even worse, some shortcut keys like Ctrl+t create a conflict between what Word wants (Increase Indent) and what I want (þ). So if we do this with LO, at least within LO, if someone goes to the trouble of creating a custom shortcut on the char map, this should over-ride any other shortcut.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>