Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-30 Thread A.R. \(Tom\) Peters
On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0400, Stephen Ball wrote: > > I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned > > but > > has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a > > key > > as the multi

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-26 Thread Mark A. Garland
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:36:53PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > I haven't found a complete list of the multi_key combinations but have > > found quite a few through trial and error and will be happy to write > > up what I know if that would help. > > http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/X11/multi_keys.t

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-25 Thread Joey Hess
> I haven't found a complete list of the multi_key combinations but have > found quite a few through trial and error and will be happy to write > up what I know if that would help. http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_smasch/X11/multi_keys.txt I don't know that it's a complete list, but it's certianly got a

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-25 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0400, Stephen Ball wrote: > I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned but > has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a key > as the multi_key, right now I'm using the righthand tux (windows) key. W

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-20 Thread csj
On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 10:30, dman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > | > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | > > | > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) > |

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-19 Thread dman
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: | > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: | > | > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) | > > | > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key | > > | > > h

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-19 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) > > > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key > > > > here are key combinations that I know of: > > > Do you by chance know how to pro

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-12 Thread csj
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key > > here are key combinations that I know of: Do you by chance know how to produce typographic (paired, curly) quotes?

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-10 Thread Arno
> here are key combinations that I know of: You can actualy see all of them in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose (Change 'iso8859-1' to whatever locale you use).

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:58:50PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0400, Stephen Ball wrote: > > I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned > > but > > has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a > > k

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-09-10 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:28:12PM -0400, Stephen Ball wrote: > I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned but > has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a key > as the multi_key, right now I'm using the righthand tux (windows) key. W

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Arno
|In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the | beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all. | | However interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works | great! Can someone inform this poor ignorant user as to what the | differences might be?

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Nick Croft
Stephen, Thanks for that tip. Any clues on getting an xterm to list files created with these ümläuten? Nick

Re: [TriLUG] Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Stephen Ball
I just caught hold of this thread so sorry if this fix has been mentioned but has anyone suggested the Multi_Key? You can setup Xmodmap to configure a key as the multi_key, right now I'm using the righthand tux (windows) key. What it does is act as a starter key for ascii combinations, for exa

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
The keyboard maps don't work on my system; alt-v just gives me v, etc. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hal

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Andrew Perrin
I ran the code below, and verified it was there with xmodmap -pm and xmodmap -pke. In the bash shell, right Alt - " - A just returns to the beginning of the line; in vi it's \xe4; in emacs it's nothing at all. However interestingly enough, in pico (the pine editor) it works great! Can someo

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Arno
| how? | this is after creating the .Xmodmap file and reading it with xmodmap. | any clues? Maybe it isn't mapped on the Alt key (both Alt keys have different keycodes) ? And also this may not work at the bash prompt (something to do with 7/8 bits settings in ~/.inputrc, IIRC). Try to see wha

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-28 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Arno (on Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:43:42AM -0700): > Now, when I press the right Alt + " then a, I get ä. how? all i get when i press Alt + " (which is Alt + Shift + ') is a double single quotation: ''. pressing the 'a' afterwards just yields ''a. this is after creating the .Xmodmap file an

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:28:19PM +0100, Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk) wrote: > Andrew Perrin wrote: > >Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate > >some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over > >some o/O, a/A, and u/U characte

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Arno
> What do people do for this case? I'm using a US keyboard and I needed to have a "compose" key, thus I put this in .Xmodmap: keycode 113 = Multi_key clear mod3 add mod3 = Multi_key The keycode 113 was discovered using xev and it maps to the right alt key on my keyboard. To see which modifi

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Oliver Elphick so: > Using vim as the editor, I can type Ctrl-k U " or Ctrl-k u " > > :dig shows all currently-defined digraphs. Oooh. Most cool! So glad I've switched to vim for mail :). If not using vim, then there's also keyboard maps ( I think they're due to dead k

Re: Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
Andrew Perrin wrote: >Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate >some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over >some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character >"doppel-s". I've tried: > >xmodmap -e "k

Typing umlauts on an english keyboard

2001-08-27 Thread Andrew Perrin
Okay folks - I've been searching with no luck on this, so would appreciate some advice. I need to type some German texts, which means umlauts over some o/O, a/A, and u/U characters, and preferably the beta-like character "doppel-s". I've tried: xmodmap -e "keycode 38 = a A adiaeresis Adiaeresis"