Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-23 Thread Chris Habasinski
Sweet!!! I have been using autokey-gtk for a while now and it has been very stable for me. On 01/23/2015 06:29 AM, John Coleman wrote: Hi Chris, I've been following all this with interest. Thanks to you, I've installed autokey-gtk on my Archlinux system. Now I can use a script like ke

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-23 Thread John Coleman
Hi Chris, I've been following all this with interest. Thanks to you, I've installed autokey-gtk on my Archlinux system. Now I can use a script like keyboard.send_keys("++u2042\n") to insert an asterism ! ⁂ etc etc :-) John On 01/21/2015 09:54 PM, Chris Habasinski wrote: I use aut

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-22 Thread hansbkk
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Chris Habasinski wrote: > > I use autokey-gtk Wow thanks Chris! Side note: http://www.raquo.net/ ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https:

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-21 Thread Udo Weik
Hello Marco, I asked pretty much the same time ago and the answer was to use the HTML escape codes. You should type an inverted slash \ followed by the escaped character code, that is: & l d q u o ; for inverted commas “ & r a r r ; for a right arrow → etc. For French quotes they are:

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-21 Thread Marco Cevoli
I asked pretty much the same time ago and the answer was to use the HTML escape codes. You should type an inverted slash \ followed by the escaped character code, that is: & l d q u o ; for inverted commas “ & r a r r ; for a right arrow → etc. For French quotes they are: & r a q u o ; and & l

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-21 Thread Udo Weik
Hello all, many thanks for all your hints and ideas. Yep, I'm a Windows guy, and yep, I'm using AutoHotkey every day (and programming with it sometimes - additionally using other much more sophisticated stuff - infos only via PM...). Using [Alt Gr + [] and [Alt Gr +]] is mentioned in the given

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-21 Thread John Coleman
Hi Guys, my laptop dual-boots Arch Linux and Windows 7, but I don't use Windows much. But I tried out [Shift + Alt Gr]<< for « on Windows 7 and it didn't work :(. I knew I preferred Linux but I didn't realise [Shift + Alt Gr] was part of the reason. So I installed /UK International keyboard

Re: [Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-21 Thread Chris Habasinski
I use autokey-gtk It is in the 14.04 repos for Ubuntu - I use elementary freya - works great with Zim - is that what you might be looking for on Linux? On 01/21/2015 04:14 PM, hans...@gmail.com wrote: John C - sorry for the dupe, forgot reply to all. -- Forwarded message -- K

[Zim-wiki] Fwd: Windows 7: Inserting special chars like guillemets/angle quotes with [ALT+NumpadNumber]

2015-01-21 Thread hansbkk
John C - sorry for the dupe, forgot reply to all. -- Forwarded message -- Keybindings are an arcane rabbit-hole, especially cross-platform. For those on windoze I highly recommend getting into AutoHotKey; in fact now I'm on Linux I really miss it, wish the Linux version had gaine