thanks
jeff
At 10:18 AM 4/26/99 -0500, Jeff Hostetler wrote:
>
>i think i see the problem. i have support for both the e-acute
>when explicitly bound and for the acute dead-char prefix. i
>didn't know about the multi-key prefix.
>
>does anyone have an references for how it is generally interpreted.
>none of my X manuals see to have anything about it (of course, they're
>quite old) ??
>
>is it as simple as <multi-key><accent-char><letter> and
>nothing happens if you enter an invalid sequence ??
>
>or is it custom to just translate <multi-key><accent-char>
>into a dead-char and continue with the normal dead-char
>processing ??
>
>jeff
>
>At 08:34 AM 4/26/99 +0200, Fredrik Liljegren wrote:
>>>> BTW, is there any way of making 'é' (e with apostrophe) in AbiWord?
>>>> It doesn't act on my multi-key at all!
>>>
>>>yes, this key (e-acute (0xe9)) should work (as should all other
>>>keys which expand to a Latin-1 character). which platform (unix
>>>or win32) are you on. if on unix, how do you have your dead-chars
>>
>>I'm on a slink debian gnu/linux.. I have my keyboard set so that in
>>order to get é, i press "<multi-key> + ´ + e".
>>
>>Strange thing is, that when I start AbiWord from the menu, without a
>>terminal-window, it works! Then I CAN make é the way I expect to.
>> But when I start from a terminal, getting all debug-info etc, it
>>ignores the multi-key, leading to "´e" instead of "é".
>>
>>
>>>open the sample document abi/test/wp/Latin1.abw and see if you
>>>get all of the Latin-1 characters drawn.
>>
>>I can see them all right.
>>
>><addon>
>>No, I was wrong! It wasn't because I started it without a terminal.
>>I notice that when I start the program, befor anything else, I can't
>>make an é. But if i change the size of the character (from 10 to 10
>>works fine!), THEN I can make my é! That is for me totally
>>reproducable, even with a new document started I have to change size
>>in there.
>></addon>
>>
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