> (someone can teach me how to put the accent over the e using a linux > desktop <smile>)
In emacs it's easy - use the latin-1-prefix input method ;; in .emacs (custom-set-variables '(default-input-method (quote latin-1-prefix)) '(current-language-environment "Latin-1")) ;; end snippet then you enter "'e" (apostrophe+e) and it turns into 'é' (e-acute). (Well, under recent versions of emacs it's easy; under older versions you had to install and load the LEIM code, doable but not convenient...) Under GNOME, you set the keyboard to "U.S. International" and you get a similar input method of entering apostrophe+vowel to get vowel-with-acute-accent. Unfortunately, I found that this turns a normal apostrophe (entered by typing 2 apostrophes in a row), into an excessively-slanted curved apostrophe (I haven't noted what code point) in OpenOffice (good enough for papers written for community college, but not pretty), and wreaks havoc with trying to quote a value in Gnumeric (such as to left-justify a string starting with a digit, as i do for the abbr'd date in every line of my checkbook spreadsheet recently migrated from sc to gnumeric). Now in the course of composing this message, I noticed that emacs-21.4.1 also turns "''" into a slanted apostrophe under latin-1-prefix; however in emacs it is easy enough to switch in and out of latin-1-prefix with "C-\" (Ctrl-backspace) so that is workable for me; piddling around to change the keyboard back and forth in GNOME would be a time sink not to mention distracting my attention so I'd forget what i wanted to do in the first place. I'd really like to see a solution that allows my wife and myself to conveniently and confortably share the same computer, and write in either English or Spanish depending on the current task or whim, in all of at least Emacs, Firefox (webmail in either language), Gnumeric, and OpenOffice ... ooh, i might demand Xterm too. As for what KDE does, I'll pass this back to Jeff as he is the one who uses KDE. (I have my wife's computer set up with GNOME; I use FVWM for work.) Randall Whitman - Whizman Software Solutions [email protected] - http://whizman.com/ 909/335-0864 18 E. State St. Suite 206, Redlands CA 92373
