Re: accents

Re: Hubert Figuiere's message
    dated 24 Aug 2006 13:33 hours

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>On Thursday 24 August 2006 11:26, Alain Torrens wrote:
>> How to type accented letters, eg, é, à ?
>> Yes I can insert a symbol, but that's laborious!
>> How to customize the the keyboard, eg, so that ~w
>> (alt-w) produces é ?
>>
>It depends of the OS you run on.
>
>On Linux, I just set the right Alt to be Compose and use that. It is not
>AbiWord specific.

Should you use Windows XP, for instance, you would wish to chose
ISO-8859-1 as your character set and US-International keyboard
layout. This will allow you to use the right Alt key in
combination with the letter you wish to accentuate, for instance,
as I am now doing for you: á é í ó ú Á É Í Ó Ú.

US-International keyboard layout gives you this versatility for
use with most European latin languages.

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