>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

John> Can people try the below patch ? I'm interested in any failures.

Is it supposed to work on xforms? Also, since only qt is affected by
this bug, can't we put this special handling in the frontend somehow?

John> I've changed things so that if we really don't recognise what's
John> going on, but the toolkit thinks it has some real key to insert,
John> we do so. Now that's pretty uncontroversial I would think. Note
John> we only do this if we're at the start of a key-sequence (M-p S-3
John> should not insert a sterling sign).

Yes, I think we have to do it. 

John> The second part of this patch (in fact related to the above too,
John> but ..) is sure to open up an old wound. I have removed that
John> horrible remove-modifiers hack. I agree 100% with JMarc that
John> it's a terrible idea, and it actually actively breaks on Qt.
John> Control-shift-k will end up inserting ^K with the hack - imagine
John> the poor user trying to find the 2-pixels wide blank character
John> in the document that breaks latex altogether !

I'd really like to see this applied.

JMarc

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