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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Writer hangs accessing Special Characters dialog"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135446#c3">Comment # 3</a>
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title="UNCONFIRMED - Writer hangs accessing Special Characters dialog"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135446">bug 135446</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:vstuart.foote@utsa.edu" title="V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote@utsa.edu>"> <span class="fn">V Stuart Foote</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Rachmiel Langer from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=135446#c2">comment #2</a>)
<span class="quote">> I do this in order to then repeatedly insert the character into the middle
> of my Hebrew text in various locations - often as an accent mark in the
> midst of a teaching text. I've been doing this for about a year, and it's
> only recently that it often (but not always) hangs.
>
> Otherwise, I have to go through the extensive menu steps leading to "insert"
> for each insertion which is quite unwieldy. In the past, I used direct
> Unicode Alt keystrokes to generate the accent character, but my current
> keyboard doesn't seem to support that.</span >
OK, there could of course be an issue with the Special Character dialog.
But as an alternative work flow--do your copy from your document canvas after
the initial paste or Unicode toggle.
That is type the Unicode "U+05ab", or other codepoint as needed, and position
the cursor at the end of the string. An <Atl>+X will toggle to the glyph
either using the current paragraph font--or use the operating system's fallback
for the glyph as appropriate to the paragraph.
That glyph copied to clipboard will persist--until a different selection is
copied to clipboard.
Of course it is a combining glyph--so you may still have to use the Special
Character dialog as a insert picker, or input the Unicode from keyboard and
convert.</pre>
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