I’m trying to use the double prime symbol as a letter in Writer (for romanized Russian text). Insertion leads to unwanted results. First, the cursor changes to a right flag. Next text entered after double prime gets thrown to its left without so much as a by-your-leave. How do I get to use double prime as a letter, no different to anything else on the keyboard?
TIA
You are likely using the wrong symbol. Please tell us the unicode number of your symbol. The “Double prime” I know is U+2033, and that is a mathematical symbol. You see the number of the symbol in the Special Characters dialog. Or you can get the number from the code charts at www.unicode.org/charts. Another good help to get the correct symbol is http://shapecatcher.com/.
Thanks. I think I may have U+02BA. Will look for the other.
Meanwhile there is definitely something mathematical going on. When I follow my current symbol with lettering it stays quiet. But if the next character, even after a comma, is a digit, it will immediately jump across to the right of that digit or digits.
Perhaps you can make a picture of the result you want to get, and upload it somewhere?
SOLUTION - It turns out that both U+2033 and U+05F4 exhibit the same behavior (for me) by popping up the flag cursor and then misbehaving. I have solved this, I think, by setting up macros to give me U+02BA for double and its neighbor for single prime as characters in text. (Evidently I wasn’t using these before.) The cursor stays normal and so far at least so does the text. Hopefully I won’t have to revisit this.