2007/2/22, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 22/02/07, M Henri Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I<snip> For > diacritics, investigate the resources available using the Alt Gr and Alt > Gr > + Shift keys ; as I have found to my pleasure, they are considerable.... > > Henri > > <snip> Please explain further. I can only get a single diacritic - the acute accent - using Alt Gr. Alt Gr + Shift simply puts the accent over an upper case letter. How would I get grave accent, umlaut, circumflex, cedilla, ... ? -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
Harald, I obviously use a different keyboard setting than you do, but if I compare the two (I presume that that used in the UK, where you live, is identical to that used in the US, the layout of which I found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Qwerty.svg, I find that «your» keyboard has one more key in the uppermost (numeric) row, the same number in the next (QWERTY) row, one less in the third row, and one less in the fourth row ; i e, in total, one less key than mine. My question is, what happens when you use Alt Gr + say, the end square bracket key «]» on your board - if I perform the corresponding operation I get a tilde («~»). Similarly, on my machine, Alt Gr + 3 gives me the librum («£»), which presumably you obtain via 3 + Shift ; what do you get if you imitate my operation ? I can get «ř» by pressing Alt Gr + Shift + the key that corresponds in position to the end square bracket key on your board, releasing them and then pressing «r», mutatis mutandi for š and ž. I don't mean to suggest that your keys will work precisely like mine, rather that it might be worthwhile to try «Alt Gr +» and «Alt Gr + Shift +» with all the keys on your keyboard and see what happens. You might be surprised - I was !... Henri
