getting a << (french/spanish) quote from an AT (10 Fkeys) keyboard

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

Being job application season for academics in economics, I dragged out 
star office to prepare the letters.  Recalling last year, i quickly 
figured out that it would be easier to write a mail-merge patch to lyx 
than to face the word-style merge again.

A crude version is working, but the hack uses < and > for the 
delimiters, which has obvious problems :)

I want to use the french/spanish style quotes  ( << and >> ) for the 
english delimiter, and the english curly quotes for languages that use 
those for quotes.  But how do i enter these?

I'm using english on an old AT keyboard--the one with the control key 
next to the A where God meant it to be, one alt in the lower left, and 
one capslock in the lower right (which could be a compose key, i 
suppose).

I had a suggestion to use xmodmap to make the caps a MultiKey, but I 
couldn't make this work.  Another was that altgr+x could do it, but 
this didn't seem to, either.  And i've been told that they are called 
guillemot.

I've also tried xkeycaps, but it doesn't even seem to recognize 92(?) 
rather than 101+ keys (told me some *very* strange things . . .)

help!

rick

--