James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
>..> For e-acute, 3-char-seq: {<compose key>, ', e} giving é
>
Oh I forgot, there is another way as well. It helps if you have a
keyboard with the extra characters on the keys -- I guess that's more
common in the WOUSA ("World Outside the USA", tm).
The
system > preferences > hardware > keyboard > layouts
allows adding alternate keyboards to the standard one that you specified
during OS installation. I have never dug into (and so I don't know) the
configuration details, but I did try it out some time ago and it works
ok. I gave it up because I could never remember where things were on the
keyboard -- I have enough trouble with 'asdf..hjkl'. ;-) I do use the
compose mechanism, because I seem to have less trouble recalling the
modifier recipes (Voilá). There is a panel applet that allows switching
between keyboard layouts you have enabled, and that works ok, too. I
kinda remember that the applet may have required installing some
'*input*' package?
Oh yeah, you also have to set up a "third level chooser" on the "layout
options" tab. The third level chooser allows choosing something other
than unshifted or shifted -- a third choice, it seems (although it's
really better called a second shift-like modifier, I would think.)
Anyway, if you have a WOUSA keyboard, and are comfortable using it, then
you really should have access to the extra keyboard keys -- maybe you
didn't install the right keyboard layout at installation, but you can
add it now.
Regards,
..jim
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