Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 17/03/2008, Jim Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I'm using KDE on Ubuntu Linux. However there should be a way to add
the doublequote character to midletter. I've just spent quite some
time googling, and I've yet to find the answer, but I'm looking.
I cannot use a virtual keyboard as I have trouble manipulating the
mouse. I will continue to search for the method of adding the
doublequote, as in contrast to the article's assertation that only
legacy documents use it, I am unaware of any document that does not.
Well by legacy documents the Unicode people would mean any documents
formatted according to pre-Unicode limitations, that is, for example,
any documents using older pre-Unicode computer character sets. Use of
the single typewriter quote ' and the double-typewriter quote " in
English would also be considered legacy use. But professional printers
of books and magazines who increasingly use Unicode are obviously not
satisfied with Latin letter typewriter double-quote for gerashayim, any
more than they are satisfied with typewriter quotation marks in Latin
script or hyphens in place of proper dashes.
I don’t know whether you can currently access a genuine geresh from your
keyboard. If so, geresh followed by geresh might be understood by the
spell checker. I note that the official SI 1452 Hebrew keyboard seems to
have a geresh on the W key, distinct from typewriter apostrophe, but no
gershayim, suggesting that they expect gershayim to be typed as geresh
geresh. See http://culmus.sourceforge.net/si1452.html .
I understand Key-touch editor is the keyboard editor for use in UBUNTU
KDE. But I believe it is rather buggy. You might try it.
You could also set up a keyboard macro in Writer to produce the
character, or perhaps some form of AutoCorrection by which every " is
turned into gershayim, or some odd form like *" is turned into gershayim.
Jim Allan
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