On Wednesday 20 November 2002 12:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > Isam, you seem to me to be describing input using the "Compose" key, a.k.a > Multi_key, which LyX certainly does support. Eg with latin1 encoding > Compose a ' -> �Compose u " -> > Compose l = -> > > I'm no expert but assume that Arabic encoding can use this too.
I am not 100% sure what you mean .. but what I exactly mean is: the letter ALEF have a shape .. the letter LAM have a shape .. when you put the letters LAM_ALEF in that sequance in a word, they will not have the shape of LAM+ALEF , but instead they have another shape .. so there will be one shape for 2 letters .. here is what I mean .. I guess that Far east languages have this complex shaping, where more than one keyboard key are used to compose one shape .. in Arabic we have it as when two letters LAM and ALEF come after each other, they have another 1 shape instead of 2 .. So this is not a keyboard issue, but rather a shaping issue .. BTW Dekel Tsur: Did you accept the patch ? is it OK ? will it be added to the CVS TREE ? Yours Isam Bayazidi > > Check xmodmap to see whether your X is configured. You're looking for > "Multi_key": > aleem@pneumon:aleem-> xmodmap > xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): > > shift Shift_L (0x12), Shift_R (0x59) > lock Caps_Lock (0x14) > control Control_L (0x11) > mod1 Alt_L (0x19), Alt_R (0x39) > mod2 Multi_key (0x28), Multi_key (0x58) > mod3 > mod4 > mod5 > > Regards, > Angus
