Re: Keyboard problems - no "dead keys" - in Linux version of Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg60016] Re: Keyboard problems - no "dead keys" - in Linux version of Mathematica
- From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
- Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:14:29 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, > I can't use accent characters like 'à ', 'á', 'é'. Normally I insert them > using '´' and 'a' (the ´ can be seen as a "dead key"). But in Mathematica > when I type this sequence I get only "´a". In other programs (Firefox, > OpenOffice, etc...) the keyboard works right, therefore it is not a X > server configuration problem. My guess is that mathematica does this on purpose, it seems reasonable if you bear in mind that it is an editor for a programming language and you will use the ' and ` characters standing for themselves a lot more than for producing 'à ', 'á', 'é' . Whether it is good habit for an application to override these kind of user configurations is another question... > Any hints? anyway, there are 'shortcuts' for all the characters (and many more) that are enclosed by Escape-Characters. Try the following key-sequences in the FrontEnd: Escape a ` Escape Escape a ' Escape Escape e ^ Escape Escape o " Escape Escape g Escape Esacpe d s R Escape Escape b u Escape Escape < - Escape ... this is not perfectly convenient when writing long texts in e.g. french or german, but one can get used to it. _And_ it makes available special characters of a wide wide range. I think there is a listing of these shortcuts somewhere in the Help-Browser, but it is usually more convenient to open the palette 'Complete Characters'. If you put the mouse-pointer above any of the characters you will see the corresponding keyboard-shortcut in the status-bar. hope that helps, Albert