i18n@... wrote:

>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >
> > > and search for "Insert an international character by
> > > using a shortcut key." You might be pleasantly surprised.
> >
> > And if one routinely uses 15 or 20 of them?
>
> One might keep a list of the commonly used ones available in a short
> file for cut and paste as needed...even whole words or phrases could be
> prepped that way. The benefit would depend on how frequently they are
> used and the relative difficulty of typing them, so YMMV.

How would that be any more efficient than Insert > Symbol?

> Another option I have used in similar situations is to assign a set of
> "gibberish" characters to a word and type those, and then use the global
> search and replace functionality to "repair" the text. This works better
> for strings of more then one character, and even words. Not an ideal
> solution, but it does allow you to stay in the ASCII (or otherwise
> easily typed characters) and still end up with a nice document at the
> end. YMMV.

Authors are sometimes asked to do that. Coyeditors serving as
typesetters, who are concerned with page layout at the same time as
content and style, don't have the option.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...