Re: What layout should I use to emulate a German keyboard but also be able to type other European characters?
On Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2022 08:26:48 -03 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 11:09:14AM +0000, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > Am 29/12/2022 um 10:59 schrieb Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ:
> > > I would need German dead tilde and dead grave
> > > acute and one precludes the other.
> >
> > Thanks. In a nutshell, what's the difference between deal tilde and
> > dead acute?
>
> Dead tilde /also/ makes the tilde key (~) into a dead key, so
> you can type ñ, ã and things. With deadgraveacute, only the
> ´ and ` keys are "dead keys".
>
> > BTW, I have standard German layout and I am still able to do the
> > French accented vowels:
> >
> > á é í ó ú ( ´ + vowel)
> >
> > à è ì ò ù ( SHIFT + ´ + vowel)
> >
> > It's a pain but doable.
>
> C'm on. Back Then (TM), where dinosaurs with typewriters roamed
> the Earth (I'll stop now ;-)
>
> Cheers
Hihi ...
If one is also programming dead tilde and dead acute grave are probably
not what one wants.
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Eike Lantzsch KY4PZ / ZP5CGE
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