Slavic symbols as a keyboard shortcuts

[BatorZ]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I have a real problem with Polish common symbols in Word for Mac.

I have tried to establish a keyboard shortcuts for them- but they do not appear among the symbols after choosing insert->symbol. Therefore I can not assign to them the shortcuts.

The option of choosing them from the object palette is a no go for me - as writing longer text like that is not convenient. Changing the language of mac into Polish is not an option either, as I have azerty and I am used to that keyboard.

counting on your help.

b

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

On 2010-01-27 15:03:50 -0500, (e-mail address removed) said:

Hi,

I have a real problem with Polish common symbols in Word for Mac.

I have tried to establish a keyboard shortcuts for them- but they do
not appear among the symbols after choosing insert->symbol. Therefore I
can not assign to them the shortcuts.

The problem is that they're not symbols. They are full characters
(probably part of the Unicode set).
You need to switch to a Polish input method and use the Apple shortcuts
to get the characters you need.
Also, you'd need to use the Apple Character viewer for them, not the
regular Symbol pane in Word.

The option of choosing them from the object palette is a no go for me -
as writing longer text like that is not convenient. Changing the
language of mac into Polish is not an option either, as I have azerty
and I am used to that keyboard.

Then beside using the proper Apple shortcuts, one option is to use a
text expander to insert the characters you need through a shortcut you
define. I use Typinator for that kind of thing.


Corentin

 

[BatorZ]

Thank you for your answer- but the problem is that if I switch the language into Polish, my keyboard switch to qwerty and I am used to work - and thats the original on my laptop- on AZERTY

I want to keep AZERTY- I just want to assign Alt+A for Ą etc... and not how is it now: Æ. How and where to change it?

I need Polish letters only in word- thats why I was searching for the options there.

best and thx in advance
b

 

[BatorZ]

Another thing is that it is possible to assign keyboard shortcuts eg for french and spanish letters- they are listed in symbols in the category "normal writing"- simply the set of this symbols is very limited.

Anyway I would be very very very grateful for any further suggestions...

b

 

[BatorZ]

I got an aswer on other forum- and worked perfectly:

you can try using Ukelele http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele to modify your keyboard layout by changing some characters you get when pressing option or control keys. in particular, with the control key most combos like control+w, control+q etc are unassigned and you you can assign them to some polish characters of your choice.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

you can try using Ukelele
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele to
modify your keyboard layout by changing some characters you get when
pressing option or control keys. in particular, with the control key
most combos like control+w, control+q etc are unassigned and you you
can assign them to some polish characters of your choice.

That's a very good option.
Otherwise, as I was saying, you can create custom shortcuts through a
text-expander application like Typinator.

Corentin