Re: special symbol

[Guldo K <guldo@tiscali.it>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:33:12 +0200
kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote:

> Guldo K <guldo@tiscali.it> writes:
> 
> > I have to type a certain symbol, it's quite like <'>, you know, the one used mostly at the beginning of words in tex docs.
> > I tried Shift+' and AltGr+', and I got two different symbols, but none works.
> > Works for what?
> > I need it for musixtex.
> > So, is there another way I don't know to get that kind of symbol?
> 
> It's hard to say what the symbol might be on an Italian keyboard, but
> maybe you have dead keys?  I mean a key ' that you press together
> with e to get the character é, and a key ` that you press together
> with e to get è.
I have no such keys. I have a single key with é, è and [.
I can't understand why the usual ` (AltGr + ') is not understood properly by musixtex, since it works fine in (La)TeX.

Thanks,

Guldo