Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:29:04 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: pippo@bellnet.ca Cc: eladioventura@hotmail.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: switch languages Message-ID: <3DC17670.5090802@owt.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20021031092619.00ae06f0@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021031092619.00ae06f0@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20021031102840.00ae44f8@pop51.bellnet.ca>
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pippo@bellnet.ca wrote: > At 04:18 PM 10/31/2002 +0000, you wrote: > I have to slap my own hands - dumb. > I was not clear - When I say I have to switch languages, I am using > OpenOffice (trying to replace MS Ofc) and have to use text and graphics > in the same document. So, I don't think that I could use emacs since it > is a text only editor. It depends on what desktop you are using. The one I am playing with right now is KDE-3.0.4 and that is a preferences>peripherals>keyboard option. You have to enable keyboard layouts. I have only tried Spanish and it is hit and miss. You also have to click the little language symbol on the status bar and is located just to the left of the clipboard tool on the right side. Canadian with deadkeys may do the same thing for you. The deadkeys don't work in a console window and I am only using kword from kde. Printing the layouts is something else. I found http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp Where you can choose the keyboard layout and it pops up a graphical representation that you can print. For example, much of what you want can be done on Windows with the English-International keyboard. The right <alt> key becomes <altgr> and turns on most of the international characters that you would have to generate by switching languages and using the dead keys. I think that anything I can do in Windows is capable of being with the keyboard layouts enabled. I haven't got beyond turning on Spanish from the status bar and using the deadkeys. Kent > >> The carbonbased lifeform info@lespetitsplaisirs.com shocked >> freebsd-questions with: >> > I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often >> within the >> > same document. Is there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD >> > quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? >> >> Why not install emacs and leim? Use menu->Options->Mule and select >> language environment to European->latin-9. Then toggle the input >> method from the same menu and pick the default. Now you can type ~c >> and get a c cedille and 'e to automatically get an e accent aigu. To >> find the exact keybindings, pick Describe Input Method from the same >> menu. Easy as pie! >> >> -- >> Ban All Sigs!! > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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