Hi,
Frank Murphy wrote:
> So what's the difference between alt+c on Mac OS and Multi_key+, on X11? Is it
> just the display of the greyed-out character? I had thought that a dead key
> was a real key on the keyboard (that had the accent engraved on it) that
> would not cause a character to be displayed until the next character was
> typed.
I think your origin example was incorrect (or I misunderstood what you meant
with 'Multi_key+' ).
There are two similar but slightly different methods for composing symbols
that absent on a keyboard.
When one uses Multi_key or Compose key it means that following *normal* symbols
should be combined. E.g. there are two keys 'comma' and 'c' and being pressed
alone they produce comma symbol and c letter correspondingly. But if you
press the sequence Multi_key, comma and 'c' the first key tells that next two
symbols (comma and 'c') should be combined in ccedilla.
In the 'dead keys method' special symbols (dead letters) that are not normal
pritable letters are used. When one press, say, key with dead_cedilla symbol
the symbol itself is not a letter but just a modifier for a next (or for a
previous) letter. Thus dead_cedilla being pressed before 'c' letter changes
it to ccedilla letter.
Of course an application gets dead keys and can show them somehow before
a normal letter will be get and converted to another one. As well as some
application could display somehow that it got Multi_key and is waiting next
symbols/letters.
Is it clearer now? :-)
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