On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Joachim Osnabryg<o...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > sorry, again with changed subject (still hoping for help): > > Hi LyXers, especially on Mac-OSX: > > With my German keyboard on Mac-OSX normally I can get with > > alt+a | d | e | o | t | p | + | x | c | m | l | ö | ä etc. > the following special letters/symbols: > å | ∂ | € | ø | † | π | ± | ≈ | ç | µ | @ | œ | æ etc. > > which I find very practical. > > But because of the key-bindings in LyX (mac-bindings in this case, see > Help=>Keybord-Shortcuts or similar) these > usual key combinations for special characters are disabled in LyX. > > Of course one can disable any key-binding in LyX (so they are not usable > at all and the system key-combinations will be in effect in LyX, too) or > create another one, which seems rather laborious and time-consuming. > > I hoped I could vary the keybinding of LyX or of Mac-OSX with one ore few > steps, e. g. change from alt+x > to command+alt+x or similar to avoid this problem, but I didn't find out, > how. > > Can anybody show a way to get the wanted result, i. e. holding the LyX > keybindings and > ==> create other key-combinations for the special letters/symbols which in > other programs are got with alt+x?
I don't know much about German keyboards, but the easiest way I know to change keybindings in LyX is to go through LyX > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts and do each one manually. (You can manually edit the keybindings file, which is at ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/bind/user.bind. Just make sure you have a backup to revert any changes that don't work.) So it looks like you'll have to do each one separately. Fortunately, it's a once-and-done thing. BH
