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Re: Keyboard problems - no "dead keys" - in Linux version of Mathematica

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  • Subject: [mg60046] Re: Keyboard problems - no "dead keys" - in Linux version of Mathematica
  • From: Wishmaster (r) <wishmaster at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:43:04 -0400 (EDT)
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albert wrote:

> 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...

I understand this.

> 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.

This is how I use currently. Not practical for typing in Portuguese
(which uses all sorts of special characters) but already is an
improvement


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