Stefano Franchi wrote: >> However, in the main LyX window, we need to interpret each and every >> key press and so must generate the std::string from these key presses. >> We can't leave things to Qt. Our own, home grown key handling code is >> less sophisticated than Qt's, but crucially for us, we have total >> control over it to do lots of other stuff.
> That makes sense. Now I know why the behavior is different An Italian living in New Zealand and spelling in American. What is the Commonwealth coming to ;-) > ---I suppose there must be something wrong with my setup, then, if the > compose key works in QT but doesn't in LyX. Will wait for the next > release and hope for the best, but thanks for the explanation. There's also some strange nonsense about an interaction between our key handling and some far eastern multibyte input method that is compiled into some Qt distributions. Hazy about the details; ask José ;-) -- Angus