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