On Sunday 06 October 2013 07:44:22 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Jo, 29 aug 13, 12:09:21, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote:
Because now I know that specifically they want to input the
barred characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type
those
On Mi, 21 aug 13, 23:30:19, Bob Proulx wrote:
dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
That asks me what I want set up for AltGr and Compose. I selected
Right Alt and Right Control. That resulted in this configuration in
the /etc/default/keyboard file. (Can anyone explain to me what
On Jo, 29 aug 13, 12:09:21, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote:
Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred
characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that
I should recommend to them?
I cannot even
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
the /etc/default/keyboard file. (Can anyone explain to me what lv3
means in this? The rest is obvious.)
XKBOPTIONS=lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp
This hasn't been answered as far as I can tell:
It had not yet.
On 2013-08-29, Stefan Monnier monn...@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in
Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters!
That's because it was Latin-1. If you tried Latin-2 you'd see them ;-)
Or Latin
Sorry about posting this to you off-list, Lisi.
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote:
All worked perfectly as described. Accented
On Friday 30 August 2013 11:09:29 Joel Rees wrote:
Sorry about posting this to you off-list, Lisi.
I too apologise for therefore reciprocating!
On Friday 30 August 2013 10:51:10 Joel Rees wrote:
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 21 August
On Thursday 29 August 2013 14:17:46 François Patte wrote:
Le 29/08/2013 15:15, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree
in Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these
characters!
You, maybe, never taught prosody...
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote:
All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily
input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the
bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters
with the above.
Because now I
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote:
All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily
input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the
bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 13:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote:
All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily
input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted
PPS: From Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracy, analogously, use all
the words you know and don't care for well-elaborated language, if not
everybody is able to understand somebody, than not the people who don't
understand are the idiots, but the one who chose words that are not
common is an idiot.
You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in
Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters!
That's because it was Latin-1. If you tried Latin-2 you'd see them ;-)
Stefan
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Le 29/08/2013 15:15, Stefan Monnier a écrit :
You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in
Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters!
You, maybe, never taught prosody...
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On Thursday 22 August 2013 16:56:14 Hendrik Boom wrote:
Sanskrit. It has eight cases, not just six,
three numbers, not just singular and plural
I didn't know that aboit Sanskrit. Shame on me!
Are the three numbers singular, dual and plural, like classical Greek, or
something else again?
On Thursday 22 August 2013 19:15:25 Doug wrote:
On 08/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:04 +0200, François Patte wrote:
As for Latin, it is better to call it an ancient language, it is still
the official language in Vatican.
*rofl* my plan was to reply and
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
If you've ever seen the graffiti scene in 'The Life of Brian' then you
may use a word other than misfortune. :)
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Le 21/08/2013 23:37, Bob Proulx a écrit :
I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they
wished to type in special characters. Which I assumed meant
accented characters.
I had previously read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html
And that
The Wednesday 21 August 2013 23:37:25, Bob Proulx wrote :
I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they
wished to type in special characters. Which I assumed meant
accented characters.
I had previously read:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
If you've ever seen the graffiti scene in 'The Life of Brian' then you
may use a word other than misfortune. :)
As I
On Qua, 21 Ago 2013, Bob Proulx wrote:
So I went off and set up:
setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev -layout us -variant altgr-intl
All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily
input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the
bar characters āēīōū.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:51:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
If you've ever seen the graffiti scene in 'The Life of Brian'
On Qua, 21 Ago 2013, Doug wrote:
The only time I have run into those odd-ball bar characters--the
bar is called a macron--is in schoolboy Latin, where the Romans
never heard of them! And the Latin used in Catholic Church liturgies
never used the macrons either. Only Latin teachers, to make the
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:56 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
And Sanskrit (from some eras, anyway) has German beat for compound
words!
:D
I own a dust covered Bhagavad-Gītā written in Sanskrit, with a word by
word translation followed by an interpretation (not called
interpretation, but explanation
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:56 +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
And Sanskrit (from some eras, anyway) has German beat for compound
words!
:D
I own a dust covered Bhagavad-Gītā written in Sanskrit, with a word by
word translation followed by
Le 22/08/2013 17:56, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:51:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
If you've ever seen
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:04 +0200, François Patte wrote:
As for Latin, it is better to call it an ancient language, it is still
the official language in Vatican.
*rofl* my plan was to reply and to ask you, if it's their official
language, than why don't they provide their homepage in Latin.
On 08/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:04 +0200, François Patte wrote:
As for Latin, it is better to call it an ancient language, it is still
the official language in Vatican.
*rofl* my plan was to reply and to ask you, if it's their official
language, than why
I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they
wished to type in special characters. Which I assumed meant
accented characters.
I had previously read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html
And that pointed me off to the very nicely written article:
On 08/21/2013 05:37 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they
wished to type in special characters. Which I assumed meant
accented characters.
I had previously read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html
And that
Doug wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the
bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters
with the above.
Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred
characters āēīōū what would be
On 08/21/2013 06:33 PM, Doug wrote:
/snip/
Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred
characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that
I should recommend to them?
Thanks!
Bob
How did you create those characters in the email? And why wouldn't
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 18:33 -0400, Doug wrote:
The only time I have run into those odd-ball bar characters--the
bar is called a macron--is in schoolboy Latin, where the Romans
never heard of them!
On of the school subjects I had was Latin and I never heard of them
too :D. To be fair, I didn't
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin.
What a pity, such a useful language ;). Be happy, learning Latin does
cause personality disorders ;).
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On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 03:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt, rusticus porcus est, errare humanum
est
Perhaps I should translate: I am, you are, he|she|it is, we are, you
are, they are, the farmer is a pig, to err is human
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Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes:
I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they
wished to type in special characters. Which I assumed meant
accented characters.
I had previously read:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html
And that pointed
Carl Johnson wrote:
Bob Proulx writes:
That seemed to have been the best recommendation. So I went off and
set up:
setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev -layout us -variant altgr-intl
...
I just have a Compose (AltGr) key set with LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and I can
type them by using the
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