keystroke for Greek letter

keystroke for Greek letter

[Bryan W. Lepore]

i loaded my greek language environment - now what's the keystroke for a
sigma - or something else that's a Greek character?

-bryan

Re: keystroke for Greek letter

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 14:21:12 -0400
> From: "Bryan W. Lepore" <lepore@brandeis.edu>
> 
> i loaded my greek language environment - now what's the keystroke for a
> sigma - or something else that's a Greek character?

Typing "C-h C-\ RET" should display a ``picture'' of the keyboard
where each key is labeled with the Greek character it produces.

Re: keystroke for Greek letter

[Andrew Taylor]

Bryan W. Lepore wrote:
> i loaded my greek language environment - now what's the keystroke for a
> sigma - or something else that's a Greek character?

You can use an input method:  run toggle-input-method with a prefix (C-u 
C-\) and select greek.  Toggle back to latin with C-\.

Re: keystroke for Greek letter

[Bryan W. Lepore]

> You can use an input method:  run toggle-input-method with a prefix (C-u
> C-\) and select greek.  Toggle back to latin with C-\.

so i set the environment, but how do i activate the input method?  emacs
can't activate it.

-bryan

Re: keystroke for Greek letter

[Johan Bockgård]

"Bryan W. Lepore" <lepore@brandeis.edu> writes:

>> You can use an input method:  run toggle-input-method with a prefix (C-u
>> C-\) and select greek.  Toggle back to latin with C-\.
>
> so i set the environment, but how do i activate the input method?  emacs
> can't activate it.

Leim?

,----[ <info://emacs/Input+Methods> ]
|    Input methods are implemented in the separate Leim package: they are
| available only if the system administrator used Leim when building
| Emacs.  If Emacs was built without Leim, you will find that no input
| methods are defined.
`----

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Re: keystroke for Greek letter

[David Kastrup]

Andrew Taylor <ataylor@its.to> writes:

> You activate the input method by running toggle-input-method.  Once
> you've done that, you'll see an extra character appear on your status
> bar, and the regular keyboard will be remapped to greek
> characters. Thereafter, pressing C-\ will toggle between the Greek and
> English keybindings.  To see exactly what keys map to which
> characters, run describe-input-method  (C-h I).
> 
> Note that this is different than OS-level input methods.  This works
> completely and exclusively within Emacs -- if you need help with
> OS-level settings, try a different newsgroup.

Of course, assuming that you have "leim" installed in the first place.

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