Macros in OpenOffice 2

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Karl Auer wrote:
> In Microsoft word, it's possible to attach macros to keypress sequences.
> I used this feature to set up some special characters . I put u-umlaut
> on CTL-;-u, for example. This lets me insert some German characters that
> I don't have on my US keyboard.
> 
> I want to do the same thing (or at least similar) under OpenOffice, so
> that I don't have to go Insert->Special character and select the desired
> character every time.
> 
> I can create the macro OK, and when I run it, my desired character
> appears. So far so good. But I don't seem to be able to assign the macro
> to a keypress. If I assign it (for example) to Shift-CTL-C, I get an
> uppercase underlined C when I press that sequence (and a single
> backspace then deletes to start of word, odd).
> 
> The keys offered for assignment also seem only to be straight keys with
> various modifiers - there doesn't seem to be a way to assign to a
> sequence.
> 
> The OpenOffice help suggests that some accents are achievable using
> back-tick and tick as dead keys, but this doesn't work for me, they
> don't seem to be dead ;-) I just see the backtick/tick (not that I want
> accents as such anyway).
> 
> I did find a macro for StarOffice that seemed to be doing pretty much
> what I wanted, but it didn't work under OpenOffice. I guess I could
> learn the macro language and try to figure out whey, but I'm hoping
> there's a quicker way :-)
> 
> Can anyone offer a hint?

I have seen some discussion about similar questions on one of the 
OOo user lists or forums, but I would have to hunt around to find 
the info. Have you already asked there?

I do recall that several people suggested other ways of inputting 
special characters, in addition to using OOo's macro assignment 
to keystrokes.

Daniel may know at least one of the Linux solutions. IIRC, he 
(among others) pointed me to a solution, but I have not put it 
into effect yet.

Sorry, all that is not much help except as an effort to be 
encouraging. :-)

Cheers, Jean