Jean-Claude Christnach wrote:
hello again,
perhaps this is not a problem with lyx but with the X-server for
> windows, don't know:
I use a swiss-french keyboard (or swiss german) for writing german
> documents. A capital Letter with Umlaut e.g. "Ü" can only be obtained
> on those keyboards using a deadkey combination (like ""U"). But the
program doesn't treat the Umlaut sign as a deak key, so I get "U
> instead of Ü.
I used the installer .exe to install lyx and have a very recent
> installation of cygwin.
Hi, Jean-Claude. You are suffering from a misconception. Your LyX is a
native Windows app. It has absolutely nothing to do with Cygwin. It doesn't
need and doesn't use an X-Server.
Dead keys: do these things exist on Windows? Similarly, does Windows do
Compose keys? I have no idea.
Angus
