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Phonetic symbols typing
Hi,
I'm looking for a quick and easy way to insert the 20ish phonetic symbols and other special characters I commonly use. I find the conventional methods (insert menu or keyboard shortcuts) inconvenient. Can u suggest a better (and free) solution ? Best regards. |
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_Somewhere_ I saw a downloadable Phonetics keyboard; linked from one
of the Unicode Fonts websites, but I don't think it would be more convenient to be constantly switching between keyboards vs. assigning 20 or so easily remembered keyboard shortcuts -- I've systematically done it for the dozens of accented letters I need to use, and when I find myself typing a great deal of phonetics, I'm sure I'll do so for those letters, too. For instance, for any macronned letter, my code is Ctrl-Alt-hyphen, letter. For phonetic symbols, I think I'd do Ctrl-Alt-p, a (for script- a), Ctrl-Alt-p, e (for epsilon), etc. (I already use Ctrl-Shift-@, e for shwa, because of the ASCII convention of @ for shwa.) On Aug 1, 12:32 pm, Picsou1981 wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a quick and easy way to insert the 20ish phonetic symbols and other special characters I commonly use. I find the conventional methods (insert menu or keyboard shortcuts) inconvenient. Can u suggest a better (and free) solution ? Best regards. |
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Thxs, Grammatim.
I think the best solution would be to install a virtual keyboard that I could customize with the symbols I use the most. I saw something like this called Tavultesoft Keyman, but a) there's a fee and b) I'm not sure it's enirely customizable. Well, I'm still looking for solutions. B. R. |
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I've never come across a TavulteSoft product that was sold for profit!
I still say it's a lot more disruptive and tedious to switch keyboards for one or two characters at a time than to invent shortcuts for each of the symbols you're going to use. I don't know, but I expect, that when you're on the phonetic keyboard you can't easily type the plain letters but have to switch back. On Aug 2, 6:10 am, Picsou1981 wrote: Thxs, Grammatim. I think the best solution would be to install a virtual keyboard that I could customize with the symbols I use the most. I saw something like this called Tavultesoft Keyman, but a) there's a fee and b) I'm not sure it's enirely customizable. Well, I'm still looking for solutions. B. R. |
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