Subject: Re: keyboard input of arbitrary characters (was Re: Patch: Win32 IME support)
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 16:02:44 CDT
On mardi, avril 17, 2001, at 09:31 , Paul Rohr wrote:
> PS: My spouse, the professor, has been using a shortcut mechanism like
> this
> to add em dash and bullet characters to her documents for over a decade.
> She memorized those key sequences so long ago that she doesn't
> consciously
> remember what they are -- her fingers just flash and the character is
> there.
Like on the mac. for example, opt-shift-/ gives a \ on my French
keyboard. BTW, X has suche binding for special characters, and at work,
I do have a UK keyboard and use some ALT- combination under X to get
French accents.
> Unfortunately, her Mac is too old to run MacOS X, so she'll be waiting
> a bit
> longer to upgrade to AbiWord. ;-)
:-)
Hub
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