I've seen people asking for a simple way to enter accents and graves, and the discussion here goes off into a configuration of the keyboard and the X server. I think you are misleading people a little bit.
I'm here to remind users that reconfiguring to use COMPOSE is unnecessary, at least if you don't need to enter special symbols very frequently. I need accents only occasionally, and I often forget how this is done. I learned this trick from a docuement that was called "Lyx Programmer's Guide" (or similar name) that was, apparently, never officially published with LyX. I can't find it today. But, while googling, I've noticed the easy way is explained in the LyX wiki in the bottom of this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions To see an example, just open lyx and hit alt-x and it opens a small function bar at the bottom of the LyX display. In there, one can type commands. To test, type accent-acute a when you hit enter, you should see the character you want in the text. Honestly, I don't think we should encourage users to try for the compose key solution before we point out this much simpler way to get accents and other symbols for nonEnglish language documents. -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
