Special character composition

[Basil Fowler]

In the directory /etc/X11/xkb/symbols there is a set of files for very wide 
set of languages.  For my purposes I have modified the French keyboard that I 
normally use to extend the dead key system so as to be able to type ú and ã.

The files are in plain text format, and once done, the keyboard layout is 
available for all X applications.

BTW "¿" is available with alt-gr ) , ¡ with shift+alt-gr 1 on the standard 
AZERTY keyboard.  

It is worth running through the alt-gr and the shift+alt-gr to see what is 
available by default.

For maths and engineering, the best program is LyX, the graphical front end 
for LaTeX. All necessary fonts are built in.

Hope this helps

Basil Fowler



On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 23:59, Georges Giralt wrote:
> Hi !
> I'm looking at the way to compose special characters in Kde (like, for 
> example, the Spanish inverted exclamation mark) and have this mechanism 
> work for Kde applications (kmail for example) or non kde application 
> like Mozilla, or Open Office.
> How could I do that ? and how do I turn a key into "compose" ?
> Thanks in advance for your help :-)
> Platform RedHat 7.3 and Kde 3.0, Mozilla 1.4, etc...
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