Re: [newbie] Font Questions
Jamie wrote: This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's? The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/, and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Yes, I've looked. I printed out the entire Font How-To, read the DeUglification How-To, and searched over the Internet, on MandrakeForum, and looked through the indexes of about 20 Linux books in Barnes and Noble. The only book that had *anything* about extended character sets was Peter Norton's, and what it had wasn't helpful. Also, given that there are character maps for both Gnome and KDE, you would expect that if you could select an extended character from the keyboard, you'd see the keyboard selector keys somewhere on the character map as you do with Character Map in Windows. But there are no keyboard equivalents in the Gnome and K character maps. You have to highlight the desired character, copy it to the clipboard, and paste into your application. This is wildly impractical. Even worse, only the characters in Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) are shown in the character maps, so you CAN'T copy and paste such basic characters is a true apostrophe, typographic opening and closing quotation marks, em and en dashes, bullets, and true fractions for 1/4 and 3/4 into your application. If you have to copy and paste, obviously you can't use a character that doesn't appear in the character map. im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry, i cant remember the name of the document. If by any chance you find it, I would be most grateful if you'd post a message with its name and location. --Judy Miner
Re: [newbie] Font Questions
Civileme wrote: Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control Center--Hàrdwárë--Keyboard Sélèct U S International Close Mandrake Contröl Center. Now you will find some keys appear to be dead. ` ' for example. They must be typed twice. If you type them once, then they combine with the ñéxt çharacter you type. Thank you for answering. But-- That's it That's all Linux offers me? What about characters that aren't on the keyboard at all, such as a cedille? What about true apostrophes, true quotation marks, bullets, em dashes, en dashes, fractions? These are such basic necessities that I don't understand how a modern operating system could leave them unavailable to users. --Judy Miner
RE: [newbie] Font Questions
This might sound a bit stupid but have you read through the how-to's? The should be a load installed on your system under /usr/doc/how-to/, and im sure i saw one about extended charecters on your keyboard. Sorry, i cant remember the name of the document. -- From: Judith Miner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 06 July 2001 15:40 To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Font Questions Civileme wrote: Well, you need an international keyboard. Go to Mandrake Control Center--Hàrdwárë--Keyboard Sélèct U S International Close Mandrake Contröl Center. Now you will find some keys appear to be dead. ` ' for example. They must be typed twice. If you type them once, then they combine with the ñéxt çharacter you type. Thank you for answering. But-- That's it That's all Linux offers me? What about characters that aren't on the keyboard at all, such as a cedille? What about true apostrophes, true quotation marks, bullets, em dashes, en dashes, fractions? These are such basic necessities that I don't understand how a modern operating system could leave them unavailable to users. --Judy Miner _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. _ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service.