On Thursday 26 August 2004 12:29 am, David Wright wrote: > French. Is there a way to produce the standard accented characters (at > least in Gnome applications) using keyboard combinations?
> I'm very tired of mousing up to the little gnome character pallet > utility every few words when write a multi-page document. I'd like to be > able to do something like ALT-" + O to produce an umlauted O. I haven't used GNOME in years, and I have no idea if the new one still has this or not, but I imagine it almost certainly does. What I do in KDE is use the keyboard layout switcher to flip between languages. This seems like a lot of trouble perhaps, but if you write at any length in other languages it's really much more convenient than any other way of generating the special characters. I used to type circles around people who were doing the alt-0123 thing back in school (foreign language major.) I've just checked, and the Spanish layout seems suitable for German too, I think. You could make do just learning one alternative. Je peux Ãcrire en franÃais, o en espaÃol, and if memory serves, German needs only the umlaut and the à thing, with maybe an accute accent or two somewhere or other. I think I can type everything from here in the Spanish layout. ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃââÂÂâÃà I can't find an oe thing, but that's one French can live without anyway. > By the way, Windows has had this feature nailed down pat for about the > last decade. Same key combinations, doesn't depend on the window > manager, session manager, or application. Amazing. :-) Mayhap, but it's still impractical for anything other than very occasional use. I had a keyboard switcher flummy for Windows too. It's worth the time to learn if you do anything more than the most trivial little bit of some other language. -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
