On Nov 26, 2006, at 9:04 AM, Stefano Baroni wrote:
Hi everybody. I am an occasional LyX user, and I am starting to use
it again after quite a long break. I may have already asked the
question in the past, but I am afraid I did not receive an answer,
and I was not able to find a hint in the documentation nor in the
mailing list archive.
I have LyX 1.4.3 installed on a Mac g4, running Mac OS X 10.4.8. I
would simply like to use my keyboard (standard mac US ascii, I
believe) the way I am used to (i.e. punctuation symbols written
right away, accented character composed by the standard Mac
sequence, such as, e.g. <opt>-e-e = "é"). With my present LyX
configuration (which I may have inadvertedly altered from the
default one), accented characters are obtained by the sequence
<punctuation symbol>-letter, e.g. ","+"c"="ç". Regular punctuation
symbols are obtained by striking the punctuation key twice. I find
it annoying that I have to use a non-standard key-stroke sequence
to obtain accented characters, and even more annoying that I have
to strike punctuation keys twice in order to obtain a plain
punctuation symbol.
Can anybody help?
Many thanks in advance
Stefano
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Hi,
this appears to be related to one of the many bugs in LyX 1.4.x. In
LyX 1.3.x, it used to work fine with the xforms and Qt frontends. I
found the following bug report:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845
and the following related thread on this list:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg49914.html
Do you find that you can enter your accents normally in a GUI dialog
in LyX (e.g., open Document>Settings>Preamble and type something with
accents there)? In my case, that works as it should, whereas it
doesn't always work in the main LyX window.
My keyboard problems only concern some accents and umlauts, and I
don't see exactly what you're describing: e.g., when I press <option>-
c I get the ç. Depending on the way your QT is compiled, you may have
to press <apple>-c instead of <option>-c to get this to work. Maybe
you have a keymap file in ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.4/kbd/
that is causing your particular problem. Then you could try to remove
or re-write that .kmap file. In LyX Preferences, under Keyboard, you
can choose alternative keymap files, e.g. by copying from the
collection in
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/kbd/
Regards,
Jens
