Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 27894
Small Capitals as a function that can be assigned to a key
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:41:21 UTC
If one wants to use small capitals in a text, the only way of formatting text in this way is by going through the Format Character Dialogue. Could you make Small Capitals assignable to a key or a toolbar icon just as other formattings, such as italics of bold, which can be assigned through the Options Configuration dialogue. Only Small Caps is not available here, but it would be very helpful if it was. I suppose this is only a small step for you, but a great help for people working with texts. Many thanks
reassigned to bh
It currently takes ten keystrokes to mouselessly format something in small caps: 1 to get to the Format menu 1 to get to the Character item in the menu 1 Enter to open the Character dialog 3 to tab through to "Effects" 4 to scroll down to "Small capitals" 1 Enter to apply to the selection Linguistics papers with second-language examples use tons of small caps in the glosses (morpheme-for-morpheme translations). In a 10-page paper i have just been formatting, i had to apply small caps to about 100 items. This is a royal pain in OOo.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".
Althogh this topic is VERY old, I want to underline it's importance. For me, it is not a "trivial" problem (as the importance category says), but a "royal pain" as bulbul said, and definitely a bug. There is the possibility to make a hotkey/icon for nearly every exotic function, but not for small-caps? I don't understand why.
Make a character style with setting "Small capitals" and set a shortcut key to this style. Or record a macro for setting "Small capitals" and assign it to a shortcut key or to a button in a toolbar. Nevertheless, this is a valid feature request.
*** Issue 122882 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Created attachment 81191 [details] Writer document with a custom toolbar to set font effects There is no need for a macro if you use the following workaround: - create a custom toolbar adding five dummy commands - locate the toolbar in your user profile. It is an XML file, UTF-8 encoded - edit the commands as follows: <toolbar:toolbaritem xlink:href=".uno:CaseMap?CaseMap:short=0" toolbar:text="Without"/> <toolbar:toolbaritem xlink:href=".uno:CaseMap?CaseMap:short=1" toolbar:text="Capitals"/> <toolbar:toolbaritem xlink:href=".uno:CaseMap?CaseMap:short=2" toolbar:text="Lowercase"/> <toolbar:toolbaritem xlink:href=".uno:CaseMap?CaseMap:short=3" toolbar:text="Title"/> <toolbar:toolbaritem xlink:href=".uno:CaseMap?CaseMap:short=4" toolbar:text="Small capitals"/> You can do the same with Tools - Customize - Keyboard: - customize the keyboard, add 5 dummy shortcuts - edit the configuration file, modifying the commands
Created attachment 81192 [details] Custom toolbar