special character keyboard shortcuts

[shob72]

Can I create NWP-specific keyboard shortcuts for special characters manually (by double-click) inserted from Character Palette, such as ž or ā?

[martin]

This is not currently possible to do directly, however, it is relatively simple to set up some macros for common characters. Here's how:

1. Create a new macro for the character you desire, it would look like:

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Type Text 'ž'

2. Save the macro to your Macros folder (easy to do using the menu Macro > Save As Macro.
3. Go to the Menu Key preferences and assign the macro a shortcut.

One might accomplish this across all Cocoa applications (NWP included) by configuring your OSX Keyboard Bindings and/or keyboard layout, but I'm not an expert on that. You can read this page, but it's very complicated.

[shob72]

thank you

[Elbrecht]

Sebastian -

you can customize your German keyboard the way the U.S. keyboard is Extended -
I did my "German Extended" keyboard with "Ukelele" from SIL.org -

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page ... id=ukelele

It is easily done and then you can write whatever special characters needed -
as easily as writing French with German keyboard...

HE

[martin]

Thanks Elbrecht, I was hoping you'd post, since you know much more about keyboard customization than I ever will!

[keyboardmonster]

martin,
where is the keyboard?!

[ninjagame]

@ Elbrecht

Elbrecht,

I'm thinking about using Ukelele but I'd like to know one thing first: Is it possible with Ukelele to disable the CAPS LOCK key? It's quite annoying hitting it accidently while typing fast and finding later that you've typed several lines in capitals.

- ninjagame

[Elbrecht]

Well -

if I understand your question - my SIL "Ukelele" done "German Extended" keyboard is located at:

"User" / Library / Keyboard Layouts / German Extended.keylayout

HE

[Elbrecht]

I guess -

but didn't work on "Caps Lock" myself - but "Ukelele" comes with "Tutorial" and "PDF-Manual" plus "Online Help". Give it a try - I started with duplicating "U.S. Extended" and added "German" specials to get my "German Extended" running...

HE

[ninjagame]

I see, and I'll give it a try. Nice project for the weekend.

- ninjagame