Olivier Ripoll schrieb:
Using WinXP SP2, "English (United States)" keyboard with "United States
International" layout, I observe a strange behaviour with the accents (^
' ` " and ~).
With this layout, here is the expected behaviour:
"'" followed by "e" will give é
"'" followed by space will give '
"'" followed by "'" will give ''
All these examples work here, the problem seems that you use the wrong character, use the " ´ " and
not the " ' " key. I don't have an English keyboard, on my German the " ´ " and " ` " character are
on the same keyboard button.
The first time I use the character ^ (for accentuated letters îêôû or in
math mode for an exponent), it works. Subsequent uses of the ^ key does
not work anymore. Like if the key was dead...
Here, pressing " ^ " produces " ^^ ", so it works for me.
The first time I use the ' key (for example followed by a letter to
produce accentuated letters éúóí or ç), it does not work and the
un-accentuated letter is written. Subsequent uses of the accent do work
fine though.
See my first comment concerning the " ´" character.
The first time I use the ` key followed by a letter (e.g. "i"), it
produces "~i" instead of "ì". Subsequent uses work as expected.
Little subtlety: if I produce a tilde ~ before (like the ñ), the first `
will work fine (the tilde is produced by SHIFT + ` on my keyboard).
Please check your keyboard settings and better define your own keyboard layout using the the program
"keyboardlayoutcreator" which is freely available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
(doesn't work on 64bit systems)
This program is easy to use and assures that the dead keys are set properly.
Besides this don't you have similar problem when you make the same tests in
Windows' Notepad?
> Another bug I noticed is a crash (SIGSEV):
1- start LyX, create a new file
2- "ctrl+shift+m" to enter a display formula
3- type "a" followed by "^" then "2" (without the quotes) to produce a
power 2
it crashes
Couldn't reproduce with latest SVN build. But anyway, when you found a bug
please report it here:
bugzilla.lyx.org.
(please check that it isn't already reported)
regards Uwe
