From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: special symbol Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:33:12 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84wugslid3.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <20030513233214.78a20bfe.guldo@tiscali.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052988235 13646 80.91.224.249 (15 May 2003 08:43:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:43:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 10:43:53 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GEJo-0003Pa-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 10:42:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GECu-0006Rq-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 04:35:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951fe3c.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951fe3c.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.254.60) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052987596 24484053 217.81.254.60 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ASecrc0BUGwdDeRKkg+LFegCZBE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113249 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9746 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9746 Guldo K 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. Then ` followed by space and ' followed by space should give you left and right single quotes, as used by TeX. -- This line is not blank.