Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tuukka> On 27 Mar 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: As a a side note, Tuukka> compose doesn't work for me in LyX. It works in xterm and Tuukka> other programs, so I can write the character in >> What version of LyX is it? Tuukka> 1.1.

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-28 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On 27 Mar 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Tuukka> As a a side note, compose doesn't work for me in LyX. It works > Tuukka> in xterm and other programs, so I can write the character in > What version of LyX is it? 1.1.2 (I haven't upgraded for a while). ~/.xmodmaprc contains line: keycode 10

Re: dumb question: degree symbol: solved

2000-03-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ramon" == Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramon> Thank you very much to Juergen Vigna, Roger Williams, Tony Ramon> Dancer and Jose Oliveira. The compose key is working now. Ramon> However, similar to what happens to Tuuka, I am able to use the Ramon> compose key with Xemacs

Re: dumb question: degree symbol: solved

2000-03-28 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Thank you very much to Juergen Vigna, Roger Williams, Tony Dancer and Jose Oliveira. The compose key is working now. However, similar to what happens to Tuuka, I am able to use the compose key with Xemacs, xterm, kmail, etc, but NOT with lyx (I am using version 1.1.3). In case this helps anyo

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-27 Thread Roger Williams
> Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Look at this command sequences which you have to put into a > ~/.Xmodmap file... Thanks for mentioning that, Juergen -- I'd forgotten about that when I made the XF86Config suggestion to Ramon. Sure enough, $ cat .Xmodmap ! Use Scroll L

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-27 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 27-Mar-2000 Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > On 24 Mar 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> If you find out what your 'compose' key is, it is as simple as > > As a a side note, compose doesn't work for me in LyX. > It works in xterm and other programs, so I can write the character in > xterm and t

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tuukka> On 24 Mar 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> If you find out what your 'compose' key is, it is as simple as Tuukka> As a a side note, compose doesn't work for me in LyX. It works Tuukka> in xterm and other programs, so I can

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-27 Thread Tuukka Toivonen
On 24 Mar 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > If you find out what your 'compose' key is, it is as simple as As a a side note, compose doesn't work for me in LyX. It works in xterm and other programs, so I can write the character in xterm and then copy and paste it to lyx. Strange. I have Multi

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-26 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 24-Mar-2000 Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Thanks a lot to Juergen and Jean-Marc; however, I cannot find my Compose key. > I've tried with xkeycaps (I am running Linux), and cannot find anything called > "compose" or "Compose"; then I tried modifying directly the .Xmodmap file in > two different

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-25 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 12:21:03PM +0100, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Thanks a lot to Roger Williams and Tony Dancer, but I still don't seem to be > able to get it to work. I tried setting the Right Control and then the Scroll > Lock as compose and it doesn't seem to work. This is my XF86Config: >

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-25 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
I don't really know a lot about this; there are some example on obtaining things such as accents and the copyright sign in the users manual (section 2.4, I think); and I found out that that is the way to get the degree symbol. There seems to be a variety of symbols/special characters that can be g

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-25 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Thanks a lot to Roger Williams and Tony Dancer, but I still don't seem to be able to get it to work. I tried setting the Right Control and then the Scroll Lock as compose and it doesn't seem to work. This is my XF86Config: Section "Keyboard" Protocol "Standard" Autorepeat500 5 Lef

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Roger Williams wrote: >> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks a lot to Juergen and Jean-Marc; however, I cannot find my > > Compose key. > >I set mine in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: > > Section "Keyboard" > Protocol"Standard

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Roger Williams
> Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks a lot to Juergen and Jean-Marc; however, I cannot find my > Compose key. I set mine in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file: Section "Keyboard" Protocol"Standard" AutoRepeat 500 5 Left

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Tony Dancer
You might check in /etc/XF86Config (or where ever yours is) -- my compose is defined there, or so I understand. On 24 Mar, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Thanks a lot to Juergen and Jean-Marc; however, I cannot find my Compose key. > I've tried with xkeycaps (I am running Linux), and cannot find an

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Thanks a lot to Juergen and Jean-Marc; however, I cannot find my Compose key. I've tried with xkeycaps (I am running Linux), and cannot find anything called "compose" or "Compose"; then I tried modifying directly the .Xmodmap file in two different ways: first, I wrote :"add Compose = Super_L" (whe

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> On 24-Mar-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> If you find out what your 'compose' key is, it is as simple as >> compose+*+space=° Juergen> Well at least here it is: Juergen> compose+^+0=° This works here too, I just fou

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 24-Mar-2000 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > If you find out what your 'compose' key is, it is as simple as > compose+*+space=° Well at least here it is: compose+^+0=° Jürgen -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna

Re: dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ramon" == Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramon> Hi, I know this is a really dumb question, but its driving me Ramon> nuts: how do I get the "o" of degree (say, for celsius, or for Ramon> latitude)? I was able to get something like it with a "\circ" Ramon> as index, but this

dumb question: degree symbol

2000-03-24 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Hi, I know this is a really dumb question, but its driving me nuts: how do I get the "o" of degree (say, for celsius, or for latitude)? I was able to get something like it with a "\circ" as index, but this seems an overkill. Any simpler ways? I actually think it can be generated with the keyboard