Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:31:10 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: ogautherot@freesurf.fr Subject: Re: KDE and US International keyboard Message-ID: <20031125153110.GG3048@npkfbsd> In-Reply-To: <200311250213.45905.kstewart@owt.com> References: <20031124103035.BF972E4A03@mail.freesurf.fr> <200311250053.46014.kstewart@owt.com> <20031125094540.CFBF7E4A02@mail.freesurf.fr> <200311250213.45905.kstewart@owt.com>
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--6cMF9JLEeZkfJjkP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:13:45AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 25 November 2003 01:45 am, ogautherot@freesurf.fr wrote: > > Kent Stewart =E9crit: > > > > > I tried to use the keymap us_intl under OpenOffice but it won't > > > > > work; actually, I can't even type a single quote. > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > You have never apparently tried to type =FC, =F1, =E1 and all of the = other > > > special characters that English keyboards don't produce easily. > > > > Yes, the funny thing is that the French accents work fine in many apps > > (KMail and others) but OpenOffice 1.0.1 stumbles even on the sequence > > <single quote> <space>, which supposedly should insert a single quote. > > > > Any luck anyone? I tried OO 1.1 to see if it solves the problem > > but no luck yet with this one either (it was some weeks ago so I don't > > remember exactly what it was...) Did anyone succeed ? (binary answer > > welcome :-) ) > > >=20 > I use the es-Spanish keyboard layout. I went to the MS site that I told y= ou=20 > about. The English Intl. is complicated. When I toggle from US to es, the= =20 > dead keys all come into play. The ' becomes a dead key so that the sequen= ce=20 > 'e produces =E9 and so on. The ; becomes the =F1=D1 and etc. I use that l= ayout in=20 > Kword and in any Spanish words I use in email. I have never used OO. In t= he=20 > US Intl, the apostrophe, grave, the carrot, and double quotes are all dea= d=20 > keys. The rest you have to use the <alt-gr> key. The shift is also active= on=20 > the <altp-gr>. I use the default qwerty US keyboard and toggle to es-Span= ish=20 > and I get the Spanish characters when I type into anything except kde's= =20 > konsole. >=20 > If you can't see them, let me know. I can grab the popups tomorrow and sa= ve=20 > them on my web site. There is probably a copyright issue so I won't pass = the=20 > URL on here. It isn't a 100% because the international layouts use the fu= nny=20 > enter key and the shift keys are smaller. I don't know where to find thos= e=20 > characters. I haven't mapped them. >=20 > Kent In order to produce the various diacritic marks, I have just been using xmodmap(1). I have come to see that it is probably not as complete or flexible as using dead-keys, but I certainly find it useful and less obtrusive for the infrequent cases when I need to type such characters. I put this line in my .xinitrc file: xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc Then my .xmodmaprc file looks like: clear mod4 keycode 115 =3D Mode_switch keycode 10 =3D 1 exclam exclamdown keycode 26 =3D e E eacute Eacute keycode 31 =3D i I iacute Iacute keycode 32 =3D o O oacute Oacute keycode 38 =3D a A aacute Aacute keycode 57 =3D n N ntilde Ntilde keycode 61 =3D slash question questiondown This gives me the basic diacritic marks and punctuation to write in Spanish. Keycode 115 is the Super_L key - or "Windows" key. I never use those keys and I suppose I could also put something behind the Super_R key as well. The basic layout of the .xmodmaprc is that the first character is when the keycode is pressed by itself, the next is with the keycode + Shift, the next is the keycode + Mode_switch, and the final is the keycode + Mode_switch + Shift. So, to get a ``=D1'' I press Shift-Super_L-n. Just another idea... Nathan --=20 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 --6cMF9JLEeZkfJjkP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/w3W+O0ZIEthSfkkRAty+AKDPq3nCaH2w5PyE2+0TumjZ8ihXdQCgyV+m g6xbAmLA2HhhrNav9pglU+8= =mVt4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6cMF9JLEeZkfJjkP--
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