On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 17:11 -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > With the "us-acentos" option, the keys :` ~ ' ": become dead keys useful > for forming (say) :à ñ á ä:. And typing AltGr-Shift-> produces a dead > ˇ. This is interesting to know, but it replaces one difficulty (how to > produce a haček) with a greater one (how to produce a quote, backquote > or tilde.) Yes, I couldn't find any way to type those characters when the keyboard operated in that mode. 'tis about time someone produced better keyboards, with more symbols on them, so we don't have to do multi-character combinations in wierd ways. Keyboard tricks aren't too painful for the odd word, but I'd hate to have to use them repeatedly throughout a largish document. An alternative is to not do what was outlined, but set up the "compose" key, instead. It's part of the keyboard preferences (I set it to use my near-useless Windows key). Once set up, you have to first press your compose key before your keyboard changes over from normal typing to composing characters. That means that you can type normally, most of the time. The keyboard legends indicate what will be typed, as usual. But for those special occasions, you press the compose key, let go of it, then type the characters that you want combined, or the character and a symbol that looks something like what you want. compose c < gives č That less-than sign was typed by holding down shift and typing comma. Don't forget to use the shift key, in the usual way, if the extra symbols are normally typed using the shift key. Many of the other ones are a bit more obvious what to type, though some require a bit of experimentation: compose ae gives æ compose e^ gives ê compose o" gives ö compose e' gives é compose e` gives è compose o- gives õ compose o~ gives õ compose o_ gives º compose (c gives © compose (r gives ® And so on. There's a few that I can't find (such as degrees, em and en dashes, etc.), and I've not seen a list of instructions anywhere explaining how to type any of these. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
