From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ... and emoticons
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:57:24 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110321195724.GG29732@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikge=DnNmbgj+Q2VUhH39bHq6T6KpN+1Qr_Ne6N@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon 21 Mar 2011, Philipp A. wrote:
> oh, i guess you’d like to file a bug request for this. it’s quite
> useful and has no drawbacks at all.
Well, the drawback is that it takes up a key combination :-). For
example, in the US-international dead-key layout, AltGr+. applies an
overdot diacritic to the next character, so remapping it to an
ellipsis would remove that capability. You don't mention which
keyboard layout you are using.
> i think one of the greatest reasons why linux isn’t adapted as
> desktop os is that you can’t just say sth. like i did and assume it
> it right for everyone.
Both Linux and Windows offer a choice of hundreds of keyboard layouts,
since different languages have different character sets (a US keymap
would not gain much success in Greece).
> i hope one day i’ll get to print my own keyboard with math symbols
> all over.
I did once turn a UK keyboard into a Swedish keyboard using white
enamel paint, black marker pen, clear varnish, and a steady hand.
The main problem was that the varnish started degrading after a
couple of years' daily use.
As an Emacs user, I've found that the easiest way to get rarely used
Unicode symbols is to hit ctrl-x, 8, enter and type the name of the
symbol (I believe the numbers also work but I have trouble remembering
them).
Also note that it's possible to switch between different keyboard
layouts using a hotkey combination, which is handy e.g. for quickly
entering Greek characters in a scientific document.
Pont
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-19 2:46 Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-19 3:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-19 4:12 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-19 4:35 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-19 4:48 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-19 8:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-19 11:40 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-20 13:51 ` Philipp A.
2011-03-20 14:04 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-03-21 9:34 ` Cecil Westerhof
2011-03-21 11:50 ` Philipp A.
2011-03-21 19:57 ` Pontus Lurcock [this message]
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