On Thursday 30 September 2004 13:33, James Miller wrote: > Methods? The method, as I foresee it, involves pecking away at a > keyboard with my fingers while strange and wonderful characters > appear on a computer screen before me in response. I suppose I > should have to make some gesture in order for these wonders to > commence: maybe hitting some keys or something, or maybe clicking > with the mouse. I have no idea what other methods beyond these there > could be. As for apps, as I mentioned my main concern is with > OpenOffice. I suppose it might be nice to have this capability in > Abiword as well, but that's secondary. I have recently begun using > the Gnome desktop/wm, I should probably mention. > > I should state that I've already acheived some limited success > following some ipnut I got from some list members. For example, I > came across the command line utility setxkbmap. Using it, (setxkbmap > ru) I was able to type Russian characters in OOo. I'd like a > different, phonetic keyboard layout, but it seems like this is along > the right lines. What I need to find out now is what keyboards I can > pass to setxkbmap: there should be a list or something somewhere, > right?. I'm hoping there's a phonetic Russian one, and a phonetic > Greek one would be great too. > > Still sort of feeling my way around.
Ok, let me pose the question in a different way. :) 1. which languages do you want to input? Different languages => different solutions. 2. Do you prefer the traditional xkb method, or a gui solution where you can choose multiple language modules and switch between them on the fly? Cheers Arne -- Arne GÃtje (éçè) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Spam catcher. Address might change in future!) PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/685D1E8C Fingerprint: 2056 F6B7 DEA8 B478 311F 1C34 6E9F D06E 685D 1E8C Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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