Youme knows what meyou wants

[venta]

A question about recently-renamed London venues...

Which do I want to do ? See a band at the HMV Forum (né Kentish Town Forum) on a Saturday night, or see the same band at The Relentless Garage (né The Garage, Islington) on a Sunday night.

I know the Forum is a decent enough venue. On the whole, though, I like small venues, which means the Garage might be a better bet. I'm not actually sure I've ever been to the Garage, though, even before it became Relentless; I've only ever seen bands in the upstairs-at-the-Garage, which was fairly tiny. Is it a nice place to catch a band ?

In other news, the band in question is Einstuerzende Neubauten, are you going to come too ? Although it seems I failed to write it up here, their gig at the Forum was my gig-of-the-year in 2008.

Very observant people will notice that I know the easy keyboard shortcut for e-acute, but do not know a similar easy keyboard shortcut for u-with-umlaut.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, for various reasons Sunday would be more convenient for me potentially than Saturday, so it may well be the Garage. If it doesn't sell out before I get my finger out :)

1. Ctrl-:-u sounds like exactly the sort of thing I want, but I want it to work everywhere.
2. Alt-0252 doesn't work for me in Word (though it does in RTEs). Is there some ferocious Word checkybox I need ? I am using Word 2007, which pretty much means all bets are off, though :(

[skorpionuk.livejournal.com]

Indeed - well, I'll let you know which one I go for in case it helps you make a decision :)

1. Agreed! It's a great method - it makes sense to add two dots to a letter, doesn't it? And the same logic applies to /+o for ø, and so on.
NB this is a two-step process; the way you've written it above makes it look like you press everything at once.
2. What? How odd! It's fine for me, using Win7 and Word 2007; it has worked in all previous instalments of same, tho I've not tried it on non-MS systems. I think others have already said that it's a number-pad-only function, so I expect that's not it... very strange.

[venta.livejournal.com]

1. Yes, I should have written Ctrl-: u. I got carried away :)
2. I have XP and Office 2007, so I guess it's just me :( Maybe I don't believe enough or something.

Subject to confirmation from t'other half, I'm definitely going for Sunday.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Alt-0252 works fine for me in Word. I'm using XP / Office 2002, which I note is earlier than yours, but it would seem an odd feature for them to remove. What happens when you try it? But there is no depth to Microsoft's infamy I guess.

(And, in a small voice because this will sound very patronizing, but you never know: do you have Num Lock applied, as it won't work without that?)

[venta.livejournal.com]

do you have Num Lock applied, as it won't work without that?

I do know that, of course I do... and er, if I'd remembered to check that it was applied maybe I'd have noticed that it wasn't :) I always leave Num Lock on, since I don't use the number pad for anything else, but apparently it got unapplied at some point.

And thus didn't work. Which it does now.

Ahem.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Excellent, now you can ülülate away like a good'un.