On Thursday 29 July 2004 00:08, Graham Monk wrote: > Hi, > > I need to generate some French text on a US English > keyboard, I have looked through some of the Archives > but no luck, is there a search function? > > Can anyone give me a few pointers?
I would suggest switching the keyboard layout. KDE and Gnome both allow you to have multiple keyboard layouts. On KDE 3.1: Run Control Center (it's in Settings, or on the panel where it looks like a terminal with a wrench). Go to Regional and Accessibility+Keyboard layout and pick U.S. with deadkeys (not sure, I haven't tried that) or Dvorak (the one I use). You can then type accented letters by hitting AltGr-accent and then the letter. AltGr is the right Alt key (it is so labeled on a German keyboard). I currently have Farsi, Greek, Israeli, and Russian keyboard layouts available in addition to my usual, because I've done some work on Wikitravel phrasebooks. I can get to any of those five with two clicks of the mouse. phma -- li fi'u vu'u fi'u fi'u du li pa
