Re: User interface version 7: Alt Gr issue
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- Subject: [mg94335] Re: User interface version 7: Alt Gr issue
- From: "sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:51:08 -0500 (EST)
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Bert,
One solution would be to make a palette with your required characters.
Another would be to select the US-International keyboard layout in the
Regional and Language control panel (tab Languages/Details). Can't try
this myself by lack of a Belgian keyboard. When buying a computer I
always choose a standard US-International keyboard. Accented
characters are easily obtained in the corresponding layout using the
dead key system of 'a, `a, ~n, for =E1, =E0 and =F1 etc. You have to get
used to pressing the space bar after quotes if you really want quotes
and not accents, though.
It's a pity the move from 6 to 7 is not faultless, but I'm sure the
Wolfram guys will repair this once made aware of the problem. I would
be inclined to say that using the words "horrible interface" for a bug
that has impact on a small minority of users is overstating the
problem.
Cheers -- Sjoerd
On Dec 10, 6:12 am, "Bert Aerts (rm X)" <bert.aer... at advalvas.beX>
wrote:
> I have a Belgian keyboard. To enter [ or {, I have to press and hold
> the "Alt Gr" key. In Mathematica 6.0.3 this works as expected. However in
> version 7.0 I get a blue block plus the { or [ symbol. I have to remove
> these blue blocks manually. I really can't understand that Wolfram can
> release such a horrible interface!