On 09/11/2011 06:14 AM, lina wrote:
You can get superscripts and a bunch of other useful things without memorizing the ctl-shift-u codes. Make yourself a compose key. I have mine on the right ctrl key, but you could use right alt, or, if you have a Microsoft k/b, then use the right Microsoft key. You may have to Google how to make the compose key in your distro. In KDE, you can do it with configure desktop, configure hardware, configure keyboard, advanced, and then select the key you want for compose. These figures you make work anywhere on the machine, even in the Konsole. This trick works in Windows, also, if you download a freebie called allchars and install it. To use this, you hit compose, then a two-character sequence that looks something like what you want to achieve.(You need to be fairly quick from compose to characters, but they are *not* simultaneous.) For instance, the superscripted numbers can be done by compose, then ^ then (number): ² ¹ etc. The cent sign: compose, then / then c: ¢ The Euro sign: compose = e : € All of the accented letters of European languages: compose, then the diacritical mark (' ` ") then the letter. You can reverse the order of the two characters, and it still works. You can also get ¿ and ¡ for Spanish--compose, then the sign twice. Or the ß of German--compose then s twice. Yen: ¥ ; degrees: ° (o twice); fractions: ½ compose 12. You can see that this is all pretty much intuitive, so you don't have to memorize or look up alphameric codes. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley |