Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters (was Re: Patch: Win32 IME support)

[Hubert Figuiere]

On mardi, avril 17, 2001, at 09:31 , Paul Rohr wrote:

> PS:  My spouse, the professor, has been using a shortcut mechanism like 
> this
> to add em dash and bullet characters to her documents for over a decade.
> She memorized those key sequences so long ago that she doesn't 
> consciously
> remember what they are -- her fingers just flash and the character is 
> there.


Like on the mac. for example, opt-shift-/ gives a \ on my French 
keyboard. BTW, X has suche binding for special characters, and at work, 
I do have a UK keyboard and use some ALT- combination under X to get 
French accents.

> Unfortunately, her Mac is too old to run MacOS X, so she'll be waiting 
> a bit
> longer to upgrade to AbiWord.  ;-)

:-)

Hub