Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-09 Thread Helge Hafting
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 n

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread John Coppens
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:21:32 -0500 Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, I was looking for something easy for a novice. In particular, > something that shows the characters graphically so user doesn't need to > know a code. Well... You can always prepare a (LyX) document with all th

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread Neal Becker
John Coppens wrote: > On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 > "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other >> way around. > > That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both > work. There's a lot of fun t

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other > way around. That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both work. There's a lot of fun to be had with combinations. Try thing

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hidden file). If so, add the following

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:13:47 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't work for me (debian linux/american keyboard). If you feel like it, try to check if you have a file in your home directory called .Xmodmap (it's a hidden file). If so, add the following line, else create it:

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
John Coppens wrote: I've noticed that in many keyboards Ctl-. (Ctl + decimal point) is defined as the Compose character. Try to enter the รจ as: Ctl-. e `or reversed: Ctl-. ` e If necessary, it's possible to define another character as Compose (or, more 'modern', as MultiKey). I think thi

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread John Coppens
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:28:29 -0500 "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > >> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to > >> enter a > >> few special accented characters?

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread David L. Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 w

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread bruce . weller
> Neal Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread Neal Becker
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?