Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 10:30, dman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> | On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote:
> | > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> | > <snip>
> | > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :)
> | > >
> | > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key
> | > >
> | > > here are key combinations that I know of:
> | > <snip keycodes>
> | >
> | > Do you by chance know how to produce typographic (paired, curly) quotes?
> |
> | I don't think you can do it at the console with iso-8859-1; if you
> | want to print such characters I'm sure TeX can do it.
>
> Yes, in LaTeX (I don't know about raw TeX)
>
> ``this is quoted text''
>
> will give the paired double-qoutes similar to MS Word, etc. Note the
> use of backticks and single-qoutes.
That is cheating. I was thinking of something system-wide, which
multiple programs can use, say both KWord and Abiword and OpenOffice
(you get the point).
Reply to: