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Re: deadkeys with openoffice



Sending back to the list...

Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-10-28 15:18 -0500:
> green wrote:
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-28 08:49 -0500:
>>> green wrote:
>>>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote at 2009-10-27 07:32 -0500:
>>>>> No matter what I do I cannot get my deadkeys to work in openoffice.
>>>>> Anybody have better luck?
>>>>> éáñ like these...
>>>> It works fine for me, on a mostly Lenny system, in a terminal, in  
>>>> openoffice, in iceweasel (soon to be replaced with uzbl)...
>>>>
>>>> I have the following line in ~/.xsession file:
>>>>  xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
>>>>
>>>> And in ~/.xmodmaprc (! is for comments as according to xmodmap(1)):
>>>>  ! Enable compose/deadkeys for special characters
>>>>  keycode 113 = Multi_key
>>>>
>>>> And I found that keycode (for my right alt key) using xev(1).
>>>
>>> So how do you enter a deadkey?
>>> ralt+'+e?
>>
>> If I press the following keys individually in the order listed:
>> RightAlt
>> a
>> '
>>
>> then I get:
>> á
>
>
> I use US-Intl keyboard map.
> á à ç ü ñ ¿ ¡ é ß ô etc. are all quite simple.
>
> do
> # set xkbmap us intl
>
> then look  at this:
> http://dry.sailingissues.com/us-international-keyboard-layout.html
> to learn how to use it.

That's interesting, but is there any obvious advantage over the deadkey method, 
rather than preference?  I think I prefer the other, probably because I am 
familiar with it...

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