Or perhaps, José, you could play with LyX's keyboard remap feature: tools > preferences > input > keyboard/mouse
There under "keyboard remap" you have the choice of several "kmap" files. You can have a look at them to see how they work and create your own. I've done that. (However, there's one thing I was never able to get working, that's "acute accent + c" give me a "ç" --like in any other apps-- instead of an accented c) Daniel Le mercredi 19 mars 2014 à 22:16 -0400, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > 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 -- Daniel CLEMENT
