Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Tuesday 05 June 2001 11:16, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 
| > | I haven't understood a great deal of this conversation. That's not 
| because I 
| > | don't want to, just that I'm not at all familiar with font-stuff.
| > | 
| > | However, if I could return it to C++ for a minute. I attach a tiny C++ 
| > | program that takes input
| > |   \"a
| > | and creates the appropriate output
| > |   ä
| > | using a map<string, string> to do the conversion
| > 
| > One problem is that as long as we are not using unicode(wide chars)
| > interanlly we can't know if the fontencoding we are using contains ä
| > at all, so what to do then. This is also one area were LyX needs a bit
| > work.
| 
| ;-) Not now it doesn't. As Asger suggests in his reply "Re: future of LyX" 
| there are more than enough of LyX's internals spread out on the operating 
| table at the moment.
| 
| However, given that my desire was to produce pretty labels in the GUI, not 
| inside LyX itself, I shall continue as I have. Ie, if I can create a 
| character using the compose key, then it goes in the array, otherwise it 
| won't.
| 
| Incidentally, is there a resource somewhere describing the compose key 
| combinations? At the moment I use guess work!

we already have this array in the .cdef files.

compose key combinations is mentioned in:

 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/iso8859-1/Compose

f.ex.

-- 
        Lgb

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