On Sun, February 15, 2009 12:10 am, list-catcher wrote: > > I'm taking an online Spanish course which requires the use of accented > vowels along with the ñ character. Right now I'm forced to cut and > paste these letters when I need them but that's slowly driving me > insane. Is there a way I can use a control or alt key along with the > vowel (or n) to make the appropriate accented version? Is there > another way to handle this?
I had a similar problem with my Chinese course until I came across "scim" http://www.scim-im.org As far as I can tell, it works with nearly all X-programs. If you use KDE, also emerge 'skim', it integrates quite nicely. It's in the default portage-tree. -- Joost