Re: Adding accented character in JabRef [RESOLVED]

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jan 2024, Rich Shepard wrote: An authors' name is Antao with the second 'a' accented with a tilde. I'm not finding the proper syntax to produce that in the BibTeX source. Found the solution that works here with Slackware and Xfce4. In ~/.Xmodmap I added the line keycode 133 =

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: I'm seeing odd results with this as well. If I use the attached bib file, then \~A shows up just fine, but \~a does not. In the bbl file, it appears as: \begin{thebibliography}{1} \bibitem{Ant:Test} Ant\ {a}o \~Antonia. \newblock Whatever. \ne

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 1/2/24 11:51, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is JabRef saving them that way? I've had problems with it saving such things as Unicode. Riki, Nope. It tells me there's an unexpected '(' in the string. I'm seeing odd results with this as well. If I use

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is JabRef saving them that way? I've had problems with it saving such things as Unicode. Riki, Nope. It tells me there's an unexpected '(' in the string. I'll ask on the slackware mail list how to set a compose key using the right-side alt key

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Paul Rubin wrote: I forget which Linux distro you use, but you might want to check whether there is a keyboard layout option for the compose key. There is on Mint. I set it to the right alt key, so I can just type right-alt, " and a letter (three separate key strokes, not a c

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Paul Rubin
On 1/2/24 09:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: \~a   or \~{a} However, you should be able to insert directly ã Herbert, It didn't like the first two. I need to learn how to enter it directly in using /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. Thanks, Rich R

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, José Matos wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key José, That explains it: there's not an alt-graph key on US keyboards. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread José Matos
On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 06:17 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > Herbert, > > What's the AltGr chord? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key -- José Abílio -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: sure ... but also Linux: AltGr+a Herbert, What's the AltGr chord? Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024, Herbert Voss wrote: \~a   or \~{a} However, you should be able to insert directly ã Herbert, It didn't like the first two. I need to learn how to enter it directly in using /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Neal Becker
On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 5:29 AM Herbert Voss wrote: > > > Am 02.01.24 um 11:20 schrieb Kees Zeelenberg: > > Herbert Voss wrote: > >> However, you should be able to insert directly ã > > Isn't this only possible with either a keyboard that has the symbol > directly or a keyboard with dead keys? > >

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 02.01.24 um 11:20 schrieb Kees Zeelenberg: Herbert Voss wrote: However, you should be able to insert directly ã Isn't this only possible with either a keyboard that has the symbol directly or a keyboard with dead keys? sure ... but also Win: Alt+0227 macOS: Alt+n a Linux: AltGr+a Her

RE: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-02 Thread Kees Zeelenberg
Herbert Voss wrote: > However, you should be able to insert directly ã Isn't this only possible with either a keyboard that has the symbol directly or a keyboard with dead keys? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-01 Thread Herbert Voss
Am 01.01.24 um 23:52 schrieb Rich Shepard: An authors' name is Antao with the second 'a' accented with a tilde. I'm not finding the proper syntax to produce that in the BibTeX source. I tried {~}a and \{~}a and some other variants without success. \~a   or \~{a} However, you should be able

Re: Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-01 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 1/1/24 17:52, Rich Shepard wrote: An authors' name is Antao with the second 'a' accented with a tilde. I'm not finding the proper syntax to produce that in the BibTeX source. I tried {~}a and \{~}a and some other variants without success. Is JabRef saving them that way? I've had problems w

Adding accented character in JabRef

2024-01-01 Thread Rich Shepard
An authors' name is Antao with the second 'a' accented with a tilde. I'm not finding the proper syntax to produce that in the BibTeX source. I tried {~}a and \{~}a and some other variants without success. A cluestick is needed. TIA, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http:/