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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- -*- indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- -->
+<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY legal SYSTEM "legal.xml">
+ <!ENTITY appletversion "2.9.7">
+ <!ENTITY manrevision "2.10">
+ <!ENTITY date "March 2005">
+ <!ENTITY applet "Character Palette">
+]>
+<!--
+ (Do not remove this comment block.)
+ Maintained by the MATE Documentation Project
+ http://developer.mate.org/projects/gdp
+ Template version: 2.0 beta
+ Template last modified Feb 12, 2002
+-->
+<!-- =============Document Header ============================= -->
+<article id="index" lang="en">
+<!-- please do not change the id; for translations, change lang to -->
+<!-- appropriate code -->
+<articleinfo>
+ <title>&applet; Manual</title>
+ <abstract role="description">
+ <para>&applet; provides a convenient way to access characters that are
+ not on your keyboard, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols,
+ special symbols, and punctuation marks.</para>
+ </abstract>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2005</year>
+ <holder>Davyd Madeley</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2004</year>
+ <holder>Angela Boyle</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2002</year>
+ <year>2003</year>
+ <year>2004</year>
+ <holder>Sun Microsystems</holder> </copyright>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2000</year>
+ <holder>Dan Mueth</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <publisher role="maintainer">
+ <publishername>MATE Documentation Project</publishername>
+ </publisher>
+
+ &legal;
+
+ <!-- This file contains link to license for the documentation (GNU FDL), and
+ other legal stuff such as "NO WARRANTY" statement. Please do not change
+ any of this. -->
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Sun</firstname>
+ <surname>MATE Documentation Team</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>Sun Microsystems</orgname>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Dan</firstname>
+ <surname>Mueth</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>MATE Documentation Project</orgname>
+ </affiliation>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </author>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>Angela</firstname>
+ <surname>Boyle</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>MATE Documentation Project</orgname>
+ </affiliation>
+ </author>
+ <editor>
+ <firstname>Shaun</firstname>
+ <surname>McCance</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>MATE Documentation Project</orgname>
+ </affiliation>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </editor>
+ <editor>
+ <firstname>Davyd</firstname>
+ <surname>Madeley</surname>
+ <affiliation>
+ <orgname>MATE Project</orgname>
+ </affiliation>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </editor>
+ </authorgroup>
+
+ <releaseinfo revision="2.26" role="review"/>
+
+ <revhistory>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Version 2.10</revnumber>
+ <date>March 2005</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Davyd Madeley</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Version 2.8</revnumber>
+ <date>Unknown</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Angela Boyle</para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>&applet; Applet Manual V2.6</revnumber>
+ <date>August 2004</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Sun Microsystems</para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Character Palette Applet Manual V2.4</revnumber>
+ <date>August 2003</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Sun Microsystems</para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Character Palette Applet Manual V2.3</revnumber>
+ <date>October 2002</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Sun Microsystems</para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Character Palette Applet Manual V2.2</revnumber>
+ <date>August 2002</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Sun Microsystems</para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Character Palette Applet Manual V2.1</revnumber>
+ <date>July 2002</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Sun Microsystems</para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Character Palette Applet Manual V2.0</revnumber>
+ <date>March 2002</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Sun Microsystems </para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ <revision>
+ <revnumber>Character Picker Applet</revnumber>
+ <date>2000</date>
+ <revdescription>
+ <para role="author">Dan Mueth <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </para>
+ <para role="publisher">MATE Documentation Project</para>
+ </revdescription>
+ </revision>
+ </revhistory>
+ <releaseinfo>This manual describes version &appletversion; of &applet;.
+ </releaseinfo>
+ <legalnotice>
+ <title>Feedback</title>
+ <para>To report a bug or make a suggestion regarding the &applet;
+ application or this manual, follow the directions in the
+ <ulink url="ghelp:mate-feedback" type="help">MATE Feedback Page</ulink>.
+ </para>
+<!-- Translators may also add here feedback address for translations -->
+ </legalnotice>
+ </articleinfo>
+ <indexterm> <primary>Character Palette</primary> </indexterm>
+
+<!-- ============= Document Body ============================= -->
+<!-- ============= Introduction ============================== -->
+ <sect1 id="charpick-introduction">
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <!-- ==== Figure ============================================= -->
+ <figure id="applet-fig">
+ <title>&applet;</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/charpalette_applet.png"
+ format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
+ <textobject> <phrase>&applet;</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+ <!-- ==== End of Figure ======================================= -->
+ <para>The <application>&applet;</application> provides
+ a convenient way to access characters that are not on your keyboard,
+ such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols,
+ and punctuation marks. You can insert characters from the applet
+ into text strings, for example in text documents or at the command
+ line. You can customize the contents of the applet to suit your
+ requirements.</para>
+ <para><application>&applet;</application> supports the UTF-8 character
+ encoding so you can use the palette to display or copy any Unicode
+ character.</para>
+
+ <sect2 id="charpick-introduction-add">
+ <title>To Add &applet; to a Panel</title>
+ <para>To add <application>&applet;</application> to a panel,
+ right-click on the panel, then choose <guimenuitem>Add to
+ Panel</guimenuitem>. Select <application>&applet;</application>
+ in the <application>Add to the panel</application> dialog, then
+ click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+<!-- ================ Usage ================================ -->
+ <sect1 id="charpick-usage">
+ <title>Getting Characters</title>
+ <para>When you add <application>&applet;</application> to a panel for the first time, the application displays a default palette of characters. You can select a character from the default palette, or you can select a character from predefined palettes of characters. Each predefined palette of characters is associated with a standard character on your keyboard. </para>
+ <!-- ================ Usage Subsection ================================ -->
+ <sect2 id="charpick-charselect">
+ <title>To Select a Character</title>
+ <para>To select a character from the palette and insert the character into a text string, perform the following steps: </para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem><para>In the palette, click on the character that
+ you require. The character button is pressed in to indicate
+ that the character is selected.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Point to the location in an application where you
+ want to put the character and middle-click to insert the
+ character. You can also paste the character into the
+ application if the application allows you to paste from
+ the clipboard.</para>
+ <para>You can repeat the insertion using middle-click as
+ many times as you want until you either deselect the
+ character or select text in another application. You can
+ continue pasting the character from the clipboard until
+ you either deselect the character or copy to the
+ clipboard from another application.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ <para>To deselect the character, click it again or click
+ another character.</para>
+ <note><para>Some applications may not allow you to paste
+ certain characters.</para></note>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="charpick-display-chargroup">
+ <title>To Display a Predefined Palette of Characters</title>
+ <para>You can change the characters that are displayed in the application from the default palette to a predefined palette of characters. To display a palette of predefined characters, perform the following steps: </para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Click on the <guibutton>Available palettes</guibutton> button on the application, the down arrow on the left. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Click on the palette that you want to display. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ <para>You can select the character that you require from the palette of characters that is displayed in the application, then insert the character into your text string.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="charpick-charkeys">
+ <title>Characters' Keys</title>
+ <para>The following chart lists keyboard characters and their associated groups of characters. The keyboard characters are listed in the first column of each section in the chart. The character groups that are associated with each keyboard character are shown in the other columns. </para>
+ <figure id="charpick-characters">
+ <title>Character Groups Associated With Keyboard Keys</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="figures/charpick_characters.png"
+ format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
+ <textobject> <phrase>Shows character groups associated
+ with various keyboard keys. </phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+
+
+ </sect1>
+<!-- ============= Preferences ============================= -->
+ <sect1 id="charpick-prefs">
+ <title>Customizing &applet;</title>
+ <figure id="fig-prefs">
+ <title>&applet; Preferences</title>
+ <screenshot>
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject><imagedata fileref="figures/charpick-preferences.png"
+ format="PNG"/> </imageobject>
+ <textobject> <phrase>&applet; Preferences</phrase> </textobject> </mediaobject>
+ </screenshot>
+ </figure>
+ <sect2 id="charpicks-prefs-prefs">
+ <title>Configuring Palettes</title>
+ <para>To configure <application>&applet;</application>, right-click on the applet, then choose <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem>. The <guilabel>Character Palette Preferences</guilabel> dialog contains the <guilabel>Palettes</guilabel> list box, which lists the palettes that are available from the applet. To close the <guilabel>Character Palette Preferences</guilabel> dialog, click <guibutton>Close</guibutton>.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para>To add a new palette to the applet, click on the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button. See <xref linkend="charpick-default-new"/> for more information. </para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To delete a palette from the applet, select the palette, then click on the <guibutton>Delete</guibutton> button.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para>To modify a palette, select the palette, then click on the <guibutton>Edit</guibutton> button. Modify the palette in the <guilabel>Edit Palette</guilabel> dialog, then click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>.</para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="charpick-default-new">
+ <title>Setting Up a New Palette of Characters</title>
+ <para>You can use a character selection application such as <application>Character Map</application> to set up a new palette of characters. For example, to create a new palette with <application>Character Map</application>, perform the following steps: </para>
+ <orderedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Right-click on the applet, then choose <guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem>. The <guilabel>Character Palette Preferences</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Click on the <guibutton>Add</guibutton> button and the <guilabel>Add Palette</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Open <application>Character Map</application>, then select the characters that you want to display in the new palette. You can select up to 25 characters. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Copy the contents of the <guilabel>Text to copy</guilabel> text box from <application>Character Map</application> to the <guilabel>Palette</guilabel> text box in the <guilabel>Add Palette</guilabel> window. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </orderedlist>
+ <para><application>&applet;</application> adds the new palette of characters to the list of available palettes.</para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+</article>
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+ <legalnotice id="legalnotice">
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