Brendan, thanks a lot. Of course it's a GTK+ issue, not directly Zim's, sorry for the misunderstanding. BTW, this has a very low priority for me, so put it in your to-do list accordingly.
I wasn't aware of the other typing shorcut. Thanks! That feature totally solves my problem! 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 10:08 PM, Brendan Kidwell <[email protected]> wrote: > ... 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 >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
