On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:44:30AM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 00:33, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > Ok, maybe this is not exactly debian related but...
> >
> > I switched to debian about two years ago and havent looked back but
> > there is still one windows feature that I miss a lot. In windows,
> > you could insert special characters (like äüÜÄ etc) by holding ALT
> > and then typing the ascii value of the character so ALT-132 would be
> > ä. Now in linux the easiest way I've found is to go into
> > kcharselect, find the character, copy it to the clipboard and paste
> > it into the document. Naturally this takes about 80 times as long
> > and is a huge PITA.. Does anyone know of a comparable way to insert
> > special characters in linux? Soemthing thats fast, like through a
> > keyboard shortcut or similar...
> >
> > Thanks a bunch,
> > Leo
>
> Edit and use a personal xmodmap adding the keys you want? Use a
> pre-defined xmodmap for a keyboard layout that includes those
> characters? I personally use xmodmap.qc, as I have typed so much French
> text over the years that I am now most familiar with that layout, and I
> can easily type àáâèéêçìíîïòóôöùúûü with the standard settings. I'm not
> *exactly* sure where you would find diagrams of the key layouts - I
> learned them from MS-DOS 2.something's manual. Both Gnome and KDE have
> convenient keyboard layout switchers, so if you don't want to stay with
> the alternate one (most are qwerty, only shuffling lesser used
> punctuation,) you can switch back to the US keyboard layout.
Do you switch keymaps, or do you use the compose key? I am using a
standard keymap and I can type stuff like àáâçèéêìíîïòóùúûü plus some
others like ß ø å ö ñ ¿ ¡ Æ · ¹ ² ° ô plus a bunch of others I can't
remember the keystrokes for.
On this keyboard, the compose key is labeled "compose"; it's a sun type
5 keyboard. However, on PCs I _think_ the compose key is that windows
menu key (not the windows icon, the other one). OTOH maybe that's the
key I mapped compose to using xkeycaps :-) In xkeycaps the compose key
has KeySym "Multi_key".
Actually, I just found a file where I recorded some of this stuff.
Here goes:
here are key combinations that I know of:
Multi_key, A, A ::= Å
Multi_key, A, E ::= Æ
Multi_key, A, ` ::= À
Multi_key, A, ' ::= Á
Multi_key, A, ^ ::= Â
Multi_key, A, " ::= Ä
Multi_key, A, ~ ::= Ã
Multi_key, C, , ::= Ç
Multi_key, D, - ::= Ð
Multi_key, E, ` ::= È
Multi_key, E, ' ::= É
Multi_key, E, ^ ::= Ê
Multi_key, E, " ::= Ë
Multi_key, I, ` ::= Ì
Multi_key, I, ' ::= Í
Multi_key, I, ^ ::= Î
Multi_key, I, " ::= Ï
Multi_key, N, ~ ::= Ñ
Multi_key, O, ` ::= Ò
Multi_key, O, ' ::= Ó
Multi_key, O, ^ ::= Ô
Multi_key, O, " ::= Ö
Multi_key, O, ~ ::= Õ
Multi_key, O, / ::= Ø
Multi_key, U, ` ::= Ù
Multi_key, U, ' ::= Ú
Multi_key, U, ^ ::= Û
Multi_key, U, " ::= Ü
Multi_key, Y, ' ::= Ý
Multi_key, a, a ::= å
Multi_key, a, e ::= æ
Multi_key, a, ` ::= à
Multi_key, a, ' ::= á
Multi_key, a, ^ ::= â
Multi_key, a, " ::= ä
Multi_key, a, ~ ::= ã
Multi_key, a, _ ::= ª
Multi_key, c, , ::= ç
Multi_key, c, | ::= ¢
Multi_key, c, O ::= ©
Multi_key, d, - ::= ð
Multi_key, e, ` ::= è
Multi_key, e, ' ::= é
Multi_key, e, ^ ::= ê
Multi_key, e, " ::= ë
Multi_key, i, ` ::= ì
Multi_key, i, ' ::= í
Multi_key, i, ^ ::= î
Multi_key, i, " ::= ï
Multi_key, l, - ::= £
Multi_key, n, ~ ::= ñ
Multi_key, o, ` ::= ò
Multi_key, o, ' ::= ó
Multi_key, o, ^ ::= ô
Multi_key, o, " ::= ö
Multi_key, o, ~ ::= õ
Multi_key, o, / ::= ø
Multi_key, o, x ::= ¤
Multi_key, o, _ ::= º
Multi_key, s, s ::= ß
Multi_key, u, ` ::= ù
Multi_key, u, ' ::= ú
Multi_key, u, ^ ::= û
Multi_key, u, " ::= ü
Multi_key, y, ' ::= ý
Multi_key, y, " ::= ÿ
Multi_key, y, = ::= ¥
Multi_key, ?, ? ::= ¿
Multi_key, |, | ::= ¦
Multi_key, <, < ::= «
Multi_key, >, > ::= »
Multi_key, ., . ::= ·
Multi_key, ,, , ::= ¸
Multi_key, :, - ::= ÷
Multi_key, ", " ::= ¨
Multi_key, ', ' ::= ´
Multi_key, -, - ::=
Multi_key, -, , ::= ¬
Multi_key, +, - ::= ±
Multi_key, 1, 2 ::= ½
Multi_key, 1, 4 ::= ¼
Multi_key, 3, 4 ::= ¾
HTH,
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
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