On Wednesday 06 September 2006 12:20, Nigel Henry wrote: >On Wednesday 06 September 2006 17:24, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Wednesday 06 September 2006 11:13, Tony Nelson wrote: >> >At 9:07 AM -0400 9/6/06, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > ... >> > >> >>Now, if someone could tell me how to coax my US keyboard into >> >> properly spelling your name with the ommlauts over the o, I'd love >> >> it, ditto for the beta and copyright signs. I could do that with my >> >> old amiga keyboard. Hint hint... >> > >> >System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Options -> Compose Key >> >Position. Choose the key you want, or note the current selection. >> >Close dialog. Type <key>-" (<key>-shift-', a dead key if it works) >> >and then type "o". In general, the dead key to use is punctuation >> >that "looks like" the desired accent mark. >> >> Mmm, with my now ancient kde, the choices are us and international, so >> I just set it to international, so Jorg is still Jorg, anything else >> opens up a requestor menu as kde is intercepting them. > >Hi Gene. Try Alt-Gr+Shift+Colon. This is with the US intl on KDE, FC2. > It's a dead key, so you'll need to add the vowel you want to add the > umlaut to. That doesn't seem to want to work here, Nigel. It takes a second keystroke after the first o which has no response, but the second o, while still holding the left alt+left-shift+:, spits out a single uppercase O. And in kmails composer, that keystroke combo opens the 'options' menu in the composer. I miss my old amiga, it had a valid character for almost any keyboard combo you could think of. >Nigel. > >> >-- >> >____________________________________________________________________ >> >TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above >> message by Gene Heskett are: >> Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
