If I use Spanish - es keyboard layout it works just fine in LyX 2.1 RC1 and 2.0.7. I'm guessing this bug will go away when you install Ubuntu 14.04 and have access to a later LyX version.
Scott On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:44 PM, José Alejandro Lugo García <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > Thanks for all help so far. > > In order to be more specific. Initially I was installed Ubuntu 12.04 using > Spanish languaje (so my OS is current Ubuntu with spanish enviroment). During > the installation process I put English to my keyboard preferences when I was > asked for it from the CD. Once installed I added Spanish to my keyboard > preferences. So now I have two "variant" input languaje for my keyboard > preferences: "Spanish - es" and "English - en" which I use fine and I can > switch between languajes with ALT + Left Shift (my preferred taste). > > The variant "Spanish - es" works just fine in all applications (gedit, geany, > other label of the OS for input commands, etc.), it means: I type the key > accent first, then the wanted letter (vocal in my case 'cause my native > languaje), producing for example: á, é, í, ó, ú. But this is not what happen > at Lyx so yes, is a LyX 2.0.2-specific problem for Ubuntu that I have :( > > I already tried (in order to test Lyx) with other "variant" input languaje > for my keyboard preferences (e.g. "Spanish - Sun dead keys" or "Spanish - > including tilde dead key") but still nothing, it means: I type the key accent > first, then I type the desired letter, and a letter with no accent is > obtained (only inside Lyx enviroment). > > Best regards. > > ----- Mensaje original ----- > De: "Daniel CLEMENT" <[email protected]> > Para: [email protected] > Enviados: Miércoles, 19 de Marzo 2014 11:48:17 > Asunto: Re: Accent on Lyx 2.0.2 (Ubuntu 12.04 & Spanish keyboard setting) > > Hi all, PMFJI but perhaps I can help. > > It seems to me that José wants a global "dead-key" behavior for his > keyboard, that is: type in the accent first, then the accented letter, > for _every_ accent. José, am I correct? > > If so: is this problem LyX-specific? Does your keyboard behave > differently in, say, Gedit or LibreOffice? > > If not: perhaps you have accidentally selected a Spanish layout > _without_ dead keys. Can you check your keyboard preferences? You have > to go beyond the "layout" category and look for a "variant" which has > the dead keys, e.g. "Spanish - Sun dead keys" or "Spanish - including > tilde dead key". > > HTH, Daniel > > Le mercredi 19 mars 2014 à 08:25 -0700, John Kane a écrit : >> Hi José, >> I had not realised that you are on Ubuntu. If you are willing to >> switch keyboard layouts to Spanish as needed it is fairly easy to set >> up keyboards in the command area (or whatever it is called correctly) >> where things like battery status volume control etc is and just do a >> quick switch as needed. >> >> That in fact is how I got the é for your name above; I just switched >> from a US English layout to a Canadian French layout. Mind you I have >> a Canadian keyboard layout with English and French lettering so it is >> really easy to do this. I don't know how different the Spanish layouts >> are from English. > ________________________________________________________________________________________________ > I Conferencia Científica Internacional UCIENCIA 2014 en la UCI del 24 al 26 > de abril de 2014, La Habana, Cuba. Ver http://uciencia.uci.cu
