... I forgot to mention you need to have the "Insert Symbol" plugin turned on for Zim's method to work.
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Brendan Kidwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, don't forget that Zim has its own typing shortcut for non-keyboard > characters. The manual says you can type > backslash SYMBOL-NAME space > to get most of the named special characters from HTML. See this list: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references. > For example, if I type "\Yacute ", it gets converted by Zim to "Ý". This > works on all Zim-suported platforms. > > Again, we'll see if we can get the host OS's ALT+nnn method to work too in > a future release. > > > > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Brendan Kidwell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Zim is a Python application that depends completely on the GTK+ framework >> for interacting with the display and input devices, as well as a few other >> things. I don't think Zim does anything special with GTK+'s keyboard input >> functions, so the problem may be in GTK+ on Windows, not with Zim itself. >> >> I can't immediately find a solution based on the assumption that it's a >> problem with GTK+. (It may be a Zim-specific problem.) >> >> If you find any further clues or evidence, please post them on a bug >> report I created for this issue: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/1245274 . Also, subscribe to that >> bug to find out when it gets resolved. I'll see if I can squash it or >> identify the root cause and pass it to Jaap before the end of the current >> release cycle. >> >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Marco Cevoli <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi André, >>> >>> I'm aware of that. I exactly described my problem in my previous >>> message. The ALT+key combination works in every program except >>> Zim-Wiki, so it's obvious that there's an issue with it. :) >>> >>> Bests >>> >>> >>> Marco Cevoli >>> Traduttore tecnico. Grafico. Congiungitore di punti. >>> Technical translator. Graphic designer. Joiner-of-dots. >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> http://www.marcocevoli.com >>> [email protected] >>> t 34 675 800 826 >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> My t-shirt shop: http://vulnavia.spreadshirt.net >>> My latest projects: http://www.qabiria.com, http://www.allerglobal.com >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:11 AM, andré <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Marco Cevoli a écrit : >>> > >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> if I try to type a special character using ALT + (code) on the numeric >>> >> pad, nothing happens. For instance, I would like to add accented >>> >> capital E (È) or curly double quotes and I can't. >>> >> >>> >> Any hints? >>> > >>> > >>> > In the Microsoft environment you can always install the >>> > "US International" character set, which uses the standard US keyboard, >>> > adding accents and other special characters via alt + key (or maybe >>> control >>> > + key). >>> > Alternately you can install the character set for your localisation >>> (Italian >>> > ?). >>> > Note that you can have more tnan one character set installed, and >>> switch >>> > between them as you wish. >>> > I forget the details for installing and using the different character >>> sets >>> > in the Microsoft environment. (I use Linux.) >>> > >>> >> >>> >> Thanks >>> >> >>> >> Marco Cevoli >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > André >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>> >> >> >
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