Neal Becker wrote:
I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to enter a
few special accented characters? My language and document is english, but
let's say I'd like to enter a few spanish symbols. I know I can do this
with special latex, but is there a more generic (and newbie friendly) way?
* Pasting from somewhere else is an option.
Open the userguide, use menu
Navigate->List of tables->"Table 3: latin1 character set"
You'll find quite a few symbols there.
Or you can paste stuff in from anywhere else you find
these symbols - such as emails, webpages and such.
* Set your keyboard up so it will generate what you need.
I use the dead key option (in the Xserver setup)
So I can type ô by typing ^o, ä by typing "a and so on for all combinations
of letters and accents.
If I need just the ^ without a letter under it, I first
type the ^ and then a space. (I.e. "accented space")
An acceptable tradeoff, as lonely accents isn't used that much.
And it is nice in that you don't need to know where everything is,
"accent followed by letter" is easy to remember.
If you only use a few symbols over and over, consider mapping
them to unused function keys. That way, you don't disturb anything on
the regular keyboard, but you have to remember which F-key does what.
Some keyboards comes with extra "gaming keys" or "multimedia keys",
these may be useful too if your xserver recognise them (test with xev)
Helge Hafting
