Stacia Hartleben wrote:
Is there a trick to inserting accented characters? I just copied in the chars I needed but it got tedious keeping track of all those different accented chars after a while. Sorry if it's a dumb question but I might just be missing something very obvious...
Set up your keyboard so it generates accented characters easily. That helps for all apps, not just lyx.
Languages with a few non-ascii characters tend to map them to their own keys. Example: A norwegian keyboard has keys for æ, ø, and å, which works in lyx and everywhere else. Languages that uses lots of accents tend to use a dead-key approach. That is, type an "accent key". Nothing happens, but the next letter typed will have that accent. My keyboard does that for: éýúíóá èùìòà ëÿüïöä êûîôâ ũĩõãñ And if you want the accent without a letter under, you have to type the dead accent first, followed by a space. That's how I get: `^~ I don't need that trick for ', because the ' also exists on a non-dead key on my keyboard. If you're using linux, try holding down the altgr/right alt key and see what you get when typing. Lots of uncommon characters are mapped that way, giving me such things as: P þ o œ s ß d ð f đ g ŋ h ħ z « x » c © v “ b ” m µ Helge Hafting
