From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Typing accented text. Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:33:38 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87obnm8rcd.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342006529 27642 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2012 11:35:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 11:35:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 13:35:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SovCR-0006T7-He for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 13:35:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34987 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SovCQ-0001cR-Jl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2012 07:35:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 3nQP/loLMtD6SC+O0UrIYg/qWnRMQ9pl6feVlhdH1FjDU71jCr8i5HLHmwoqSq6WWa Cancel-Lock: sha1:YzVjNzZmMmIyZDA3MGMzY2JlODc3NjcxOGI2MTk2NTc5ZjFhMTc5Yw== sha1:mpReacP19I7b/RyIgkapFld09KI= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193402 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85787 Archived-At: Sergei Organov writes: > Hello, > > I'd like to type text with explicit accents, and so that accents are on > top of letters. For example, if I type in ASCII: > > H'ere is v'ery short ex'ample of what I want to ach'ieve > > then with UNICODE it should be possible to put the accents on the tops > of the next letters, right? If so, how do I do it in Emacs? Strictly speaking, with emacs, you do it with C-x 8 ' e --> é Type C-x 8 C-h for the list. But you can also do it with xmodmap, either using dead-keys like in AZERTY layouts, or with Compose (Multi_key) which works similarly to C-x 8 only at the X level, or with other modifier keys. For accents, I use Compose, and for greek and mathematical symbols, I use a modifier key. http://paste.lisp.org/display/123256 -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.