On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 10:19:33 (+0100), Werner Arnhold wrote: > On Linux there is in many environments as e.g. bash command line or vi a > way to enter Unicode characters by hex number. You press > <Ctrl>-<Shift>-u, then see a litte underlined "u", then enter hex > number, followed by a blank. Then the character is displayed. So: > > <Ctrl>-<Shift>-ue6_ is æ > <Ctrl>-<Shift>-ub0_ is ° > <Ctrl>-<Shift>-ua7_ is § > > where "_" means a blank.
Wow, that's a lot to remember. Why not just use the Compose key in your X server? Set this in the appropriate way for your distribution. In Debian one populates /etc/default/keyboard with lines like: XKBMODEL="latitude" XKBLAYOUT="gb" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" BACKSPACE="guess" Because I've never needed a [Caps Lock], I use that as my [Compose] key. Then just press [Compose] a e to type æ. And if you can't remember the combination, just guess. Chances are, you'll be right. Thus: [Compose] o e œ [Compose] a " ä [Compose] A " Ä [Compose] o / ø [Compose] o o ° [Compose] a ` à [Compose] , c ç [Compose] c c č [Compose] - L £ [Compose] ^ 1 ¹ [Compose] ~ n ñ [Compose] 1 2 ½ [Compose] < < « Some of these may depend on what locale you're using; obviously some languages will set the keyboard layout so as not to need compose sequences for frequent characters. > Am Mittwoch, den 24.01.2018, 16:50 -0600 schrieb Karlin High: > > On 1/24/2018 4:26 PM, Son_V wrote: > > > Today I use Windows and Frescobaldi 2.18 > > > > Frescobaldi has menu options for special characters. > > > > Windows has the Character Map program, charmap.exe that allows selection > > and copying special characters. > > > > That program will also display the alt-codes for some of them. These > > allow typing special characters by holding down the ALT key and typing > > numbers on the numeric keypad. > > > > ALT+0230 æ > > ALT+0176 ° > > ALT+0167 § > > > > Pick your favorite method, any of them can do the job. And you can even > > just copy and past the thing from here: æ Cheers, David. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
