Michael Chen wrote:
hi, there, I believe there is a better way than using Tex code to type in accented character in text mode. Any idea?
Go to Tools->Preferences...->Look and feel->Keyboard, check "Use keyboard map", then browse to the Resources/kbd folder and pick a keyboard (or roll your own). Save, exit and restart, and you can type in accented characters as two-key combinations. For instance, on my system (Win XP) using the 'american' keyboard, hitting ` and a in succession gives the grave a composition. Hitting ' followed by e gives acute e, etc. Hitting the "dead key" (the accent) twice gives the key symbol itself (so '' gives a single quote), while hitting the dead key followed by a space gives the accent alone.
The keymap files are text files, so you can browse them to see which one maps keys the way you like. You can modify one to your taste. See section 4.3 of the Customization help file for more info.
/Paul
