Paulo J. da Silva e Silva wrote: > Jens B. Jorgensen writes: > > I'd like to help you out, and I'll try to do so. I think you can get the > X's XKB to do > > your bidding in this case, but I'm not sure. Pardon my ignorance but what > are 'dead > > keys'? > > > > Thank you for your attention. > > Dead keys are keys that don't get processed when typed, but wait for the next > key to decide which code must be generated. This is what emacs > iso-accents-mode does. > > As an exemple, consider you want to get the "á". When you type the acute no > code is generated, the keyboard waits the next key. If it is something that > could be composed with the acute accent then the keyboard delivers the > accented character (then if you type a you'll get á). If it doesn't make sense > to compose the keyboard delivers the acute followed by the next keystroke. > > I am not sure if this can be accomplished by using XKB. I have already read > something over the net that X doesn't support dead keys directly (but the > text was rather technical and I couldn't understand completely). Another point > is that the authors of diacrd patch seem to understand what they were doing > (in fact they criticize their solution, saying that the patch should be better > written using modules and so). Anyway if we can get XKB to do it for me it > would be great and I could share the solution with some people I know that is > having the same problem.
Ok, so that's what dead keys are. I believe the XKEYBOARD extension does just what you want. I believe if you use the xfree86(pt) keymap you'll get what you want. This is supposed to be the common Purtugese layout according to the config files. The XKB extension *does* support dead keys. The config files aren't well documented but just try this and get back to me and tell me how it went. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
