Hi...
On 09-Jul-99 Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there some shortcut (I mean some Ctrl-something or Meta- )to write
> accented vowels using a US keyboard ?
> Using LaTeX ( \'e or other...) is the only way ?
If you can set up a key on your US keyboard to act as a "Compose" key
(Multi-key, some call it), it will let you do things like <compose>-' a = � (as
I just did). In X, you can do this using Xmodmap (to set the keyboard mapping)
and a program called xev (run it like "xev &" to get a window at which you can
direct mouse clicks or keypresses to see what messages they send). Using xev
you get the key codes, and modify a layout for use with Xmodmap which you can
then read in each time you start X.
See the documentation for these two programs for details -- it was so
long ago I did that, I've forgotten exactly what I did. :( (My setup doesn't
work perfectly, but I *did* manage to make that Win95 "Menu" key into a usable
Multi-key for LyX and other programs that accept it. :) Once you get it set
up, you can directly type words like "Gr��e".
Hm... somewhere on your system should be a HOWTO on keyboards... try
"locate HOWTO | grep [kK]eyboard" :) That's where I'll have to start when I
go to fix what's still broken. :-p
Have fun,
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