Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 09:57:26PM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote:
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:46:32PM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote:
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Dov Feldstern wrote:
3) With a keymap, we (the LyX programmers) are in control. Two examples:
(a) Almost always, a keymap switch should be accompanied by a language
switch, or vice-versa.
I'm not sure I agree about with the assumption about almost always
switching language.
Let's say I'm typing a letter or some other text where I frequently
write different names, and these names require special characters such
as åäö etc. Do I really want to change the language for just the name?
/Christian
Yes, you should. Technically, it's incorrect to just type in in a
different language without letting LyX know about it.
It's not a different language.
Or would I have to write \french{Andr\'e} \german{P\"onitz} to get my
name right in LyX?
Andre'
;)
Seriously, though, do you switch keymaps every time you type your name?
Or are you already using a keymap which supports these accents? Or do
you type in the accents as latex codes? I'm trying to figure out how
keymaps are used before starting to make any changes...
Usally I have an en_US keyboard with compose key configured, so it's
'RightCtrl ' e' and 'RightCtrl : o' If that's not available I usually
use 'M-x accent acute e' and 'M-x accent umlaut o' in LyX or Ctrl-k in
vi or such. In exceptional cases like citing a Russian book or such I
try to cut&paste it from somewhere.
So I rarely ever switch keymaps. If at all, it's on the Window manager
level, not within LyX.
Andre'
So in other words, whatever we do with LyX keymaps will not adversely
affect you, as long as the "use keymaps" option remains available and is
off by default, right?
Regarding Russian --- just pasting it in without switching the language
works? Latex doesn't have a problem with that? Isn't russian in a
different encoding?
Dov
