On Thu, 2001-09-20 at 10:30, dman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:04:53AM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:29:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > | > On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 05:31, Nathan E Norman wrote: > | > <snip> > | > > Interesting ... I chose the menu key for my Multi_key :) > | > > > | > > keycode 0x75 = Multi_key > | > > > | > > here are key combinations that I know of: > | > <snip keycodes> > | > > | > Do you by chance know how to produce typographic (paired, curly) quotes? > | > | I don't think you can do it at the console with iso-8859-1; if you > | want to print such characters I'm sure TeX can do it. > > Yes, in LaTeX (I don't know about raw TeX) > > ``this is quoted text'' > > will give the paired double-qoutes similar to MS Word, etc. Note the > use of backticks and single-qoutes.
That is cheating. I was thinking of something system-wide, which multiple programs can use, say both KWord and Abiword and OpenOffice (you get the point).