2007/2/23, Dutch Kind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks for responding Henri; > > On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:26 +0100, M Henri Day wrote: > >> 2007/2/23, William Case <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hi; >>> >>> I didn't want to hi-jack someone else's thread with a question that is >>> close to the 'Accented Characters' discussion but not quite the same. >>> >>> I want to bind some accented keys and symbols to a mnemonic keys using >>> the left and/or right Super (Windows) key. I would like them to be >>> universal; i.e. work in all, or at least most, applications in Linux. >>> >>> I have and use the compose key (Windows menu key). I use the >>> <Ctrl><Shift>+U + number. But rather than having to remember a set of >>> unicodes, I would like to bind either the key strokes (<Ctrl><Shift>+U + >>> number ) or an equivalent command to <Super_L> + <key>. That way >>> <Super_L> + < y > would give me ✔ ( a checkmark ) for example. In over >>> two years of trying I have not found a way to bind equivalent keystrokes >>> to what I consider a mnemonic key combination. In this case, Super_L = >>> all Bill's modified keys and y = yes = checkmark. >>> >>> Maybe someone here can tell me how to solve this. I have tried the >>> Gnome mailing list and forum two or three times over the last couple of >>> years and gotten no helpful response. >>> >>> I am using Fedora Core 6; Gnome 2.16.3; OOo 2.0.4 >>> >>> -- >>> Regards Bill >>> >> Bill, you and I seem to employ similar set-ups, save for the fact that I use >> Ubuntu Edgy where you use Fedora. >> > > Yes. What I want should work on any Linux distribution. > >> I not absolutely sure that I fully >> understand what you're after, >> > > I'll explain at the bottom. My request has a lot of people confused, > yet it seems so obvious to me. Put most simply, if I can get a symbol > or accented character by using a compose key or <Ctrl><Shift>+<U> then > <unicode number>, I should be able to assign (bind) those key strokes to > another, simpler set of keys, <A modifier Key>+<mnemonic key> -- > something like a OOo basic macro. > > Now, I am anticipating that there is, in fact, a better way to do it > than using a macro which is only available when I am using an OOo > application. > > >> but if it's a series of mnemonic combinations >> using a self-chosen «auto-key» (I use Right Windows), why not try the list >> available on the page to which John M King kindly provided a link : >> http://andrew.triumf.ca/iso8859-1-compose.html. Might just possibly be what >> you're looking for !... >> >> > Been there. I use the compose key now to get those symbols and accented > characters. The problem is there are other unicode symbols etc. that > are not part of any compose list. > > For example, I use the checkmark (U2714) fairly often and it is not in > any compose charts I have seen. Or, I used to write small articles > about playing the card game 'Bridge'. Spade = U2660, Club = U2663, > Heart = U2665, Diamond = U2666 and 'No Trump' = NT. I would be very > convenient if I could bind those card suite unicodes to a consistent > mnemonic set of keys. Or, I am English Canadian who learnt touch typing > on US keyboards but often use french words. I would like to add easy to > type, frequently used accented characters to my keyboard without > disturbing my compose set up. > E.G. <Super_R>+<e> => é or <Super_L>+e => è etc. I want to emphasize, I > don't what to change my compose setup, it still has lots of uses, but > add some keys so that I can keep up my rhythm of thought while typing. > > >> Henri >> > > Doesn't that make sense? Shouldn't it be easy? > Maybe I understand this wrong, but what is needed are accented characters without typing all those numbers. There is an easy way, at least for the keyboards I know. If you use the american layout keyboard you can, in linux, select a sub version ot the keyboard, for example the international or alt-international variant for an american keyboard has the accented characters as dead keys, i.e. when you press them, nothing happens until you type a next character. So if you want " you have to type " followed by space, but if you want ö you just type " followed by the o . The same for ' which can create the accented éáó , etc. Other keyboards that work that way are for example the spanish keyboard. I use linux with KDE and it works fine for me, having the american keyboard. And living in Spain, I sometimes need the upside down question mark, so I have the spanish keybaord installed and by just clicking on the icon in the systray I switch to that one (or hit Ctrl-Alt-k) This works system wide, for all applications, in xwindows. I assume in gnome as well as in KDE. Dutch Kind
I get ¿ on my Scandinavian keyboard via Alt Gr + Shift + «+» (on my keyboard, the plus sign is on the key immediately to the right of «0» ; Shift + this key gives «?»... Henri
