I saw that I sent his mail earlier from an email account that is not
registered on the list, so I retry now from a registered account:
Joe Smith wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Please, *please* point me at details of how "many of the same
results can be obtained" using Alt Gr or Alt Gr + Shift.
I believe this is properly a function of your keyboard layout and
desktop setup, rather than the application software. Wouldn't you
rather use the same keys to type an "à" in /any/ application, instead
of having each application decide what keys you need to use?
Hear, hear!
In Linux under X-windows (independent of which Linux distribution or
desktop environment), it is possible to define a key as 'compose' key.
You tap (not hold) the compose key, then the two keys you want to combine.
So, ' and a gives á, ` and e gives è, , and c gives ç, = and e gives €, etc.
Works in any application.
I think this is a much cleaner solution than building it into every
application separately.
For Windows, there is a small addon program that dows the same, making
the Control key 'compose' if it is just tapped instead of held.
You can find it at http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
As long as Windows does not provide this functionality itself, we can
use this.
I think the 'Compose'-key is a cleaner solution than the US
International layout of Windows.
In the US-Internationa layout, all keys that could be used as accents on
the letters become 'dead' keys: they don't produce any output when they
are pressed by themselves.
If you need to type a lot of " or ' symbols (as when programming), this
becomes a nuisance quite soon.
Henk.
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