On 6 Dec, 2006, at 3:39 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Dec 6, 2006, at 3:40 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
On 12/6/06, Bruce Pourciau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How do I get a letter like e or a with an accent? In other
applications it's option-e (together) then the letter, but that
doesn't give it to me in LyX/Mac 1.4.1. What am I doing wrong?
Depending on the accent you want (acute or grave), insert the
following in ERT:
\'e
\`e
Or, hit Ctrl+M twice to enter math-text mode, and enter this straight
into math-text mode for a WYSIWYG experience. For more discussion of
symbols and diacritics, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc6
or the LaTeX symbol manual, which is linked from that page.
This *shouldn't* be required. I can type accents in LyX just like I
can in any other application on Mac (with the exception that when I
hit <option>-e initially in LyX, I don't see the acute accent
appearing above the cursor as is normal for other applications, though
when I hit the second e (without the <option> key), I get the "é"
character). This has been true for me ever since LyX/Mac was released
(was it 1.3.2?), and has been true on both PPC and Intel Macs.
The question, then, is why you aren't able to do that. What language
are you using? What keyboard? ... What else might be different about
your system from mine -- a standard US-English installation -- that
might explain this?
It has never worked for me either (Bennett, you may remember we
discussed this issue some time ago). I am on MacOs 10.3.9, and have
been using LyX since 1.3.5 or .6, I think. Never got the accents.
Notice that the accents work in the Qt dialogs and in the
mini-buffer--they don't work in the main editing window. I seem to
remember one developer explaining to me that that's because LyX does
additional processing on the latter case. Apparently that's what screws
up the Mac "insert-key" accents. The single-key accents work fine: å,
ºª•¶§∞¢ etc.
I have come to rely on the mini-buffer method: mini-buffer, a, tab,
select accent with arrow, enter, letter, enter. Cumbersome, but better
than having ERT every other words (as when typing French)
Stefano
Bennett
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