On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
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)
Yes, I remember. You could always switch to the Dvorak keyboard! ;)
The good news is that this is not a problem in developmental builds
of LyX 1.5.0. The bad news is that it won't be out for a while.
Bennett
