Re: How to Make Chicken Cacciatore (was: phonetics by guesswork)
| From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 17, 2004, 15:40 |
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* Christian Thalmann said on 2004-07-17 17:28:59 +0200
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Tristan Mc Leay <kesuari@Y...> wrote:
> > Also, it's not an opinion. No-one wants to memorise
> > alt+0309252094358204358 to be able to type é (and what if you're
> > typing `élite' at the start of a sentence? Then you have to memorise
> > alt+439269436898437509283475879, and remember that one's the
> > capitalisation of the other), but most keyboards in at least
> > Australia and the US lack another way of typing accents.
Well we all now PCs and Windows sucks so no need to flog that
particular dead horse ever again...
> On my Mac, I can type umlauts with alt-u + vowel using the standard
> American keyboard mapping... I'm pretty stumped when I have to do it
> on PC, or worse, a UNIX machine.
If there's X Windows on that UNIX-machine you can remap that keyboard so
completely that nobody but you will be able to use it. 'e' on Enter? No
problem! Space means Delete? No problem :) To make it short: just about
any character, with or without accents and diacritics, on any key - no
problem. Frankly, it's one of the things I miss the most when using Some
Other OS[tm]. Try xmodmap(1).
t.
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