>> From: Reinhard Borek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: Lyx-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: Re: German umlauts in math equations, again...
>> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:28:04 +0200
>>
>> Hi,
>> yes, I agree with Jean-Pierre. But I cant not understand, why there
>> is not a possibility to use keys with german umlauts in
>> math-text-mode. And I do not know, why I can not put german umlauts
>> with the umlaut-keys directly in math-text-mode like other users do
>> this. I test it with Lyx 1.0.3 and 1.0.4pre4 on Debian slink.
I don't want to get into too specific considerations, but I can describe
more precisely how it works on my Sun workstation, as I need
accented characters very often and I have
In any normal text editor, including LyX in text mode,
the keyboerd keys F1 to F12 are programmed to the 24 French accented
characters in low and uppercase, using xmodmap e.g.
xmodmap -e 'keycode 12 = agrave Agrave'
In LyX, the so-called Compose key (which allows to
build any iso-latin character, including « for example)
is inactive by default, so I created a file named clavier-sun.bind
which reprograms the accents and the usual copy, paste, cut, undo
keystrokes of the Sun keyboard, which I heavily use as well
in other applications:
\bind "F12" "redo"
\bind "F14" "undo"
\bind "F16" "copy"
\bind "F18" "paste"
\bind "F19" "find-replace"
\bind "F20" "cut"
\bind "Multi_key apostrophe" "accent-acute"
\bind "Multi_key S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut"
\bind "Multi_key grave" "accent-grave"
\bind "Multi_key S-asciicircum" "accent-circumflex"
\bind "Multi_key comma" "accent-cedilla"
Multi-key is the Compose key, as shown by xev (the event tester).
The F12 to F20 bindings have nothing to
do with the upper line of keys mentioned above
where I programmed the accents using xmodmap.
With this, I'm able to create umlauts in math mode either with
M-m S-" a
or
C " a
Regards
--
Jean-Pierre
