Re: OE diphthongs/breaking (was: Re: Germanic vowel correspondences (was: Scots.))

ROGER MILLS wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> Right-alt (a.k.a. Alt Gr) only works with the keyboard set to US Intl,
>> which might have other undesired effects (like turning some
>> punctuation marks into dead keys).
>
> True, but it saves a lot of effort if you do much with Spanish/French, even
> German...not to mention conlangy stuff............You just have to get used
> to hitting the space bar when necessary :-)))
Heh, well, I use the Dvorak layout, so it's not really an option for me
anyway. I will continue to feign ignorance when I can't be bothered
poking at the character map, because those Alt+032348902935092 codes are
too difficult to remember if you're only going to use them once every
now and again. The greatest key ever invented for the computer keyboard
has surely got to be the Compose key aka Multi key, which lets you make
ae ligatures my typing the sequence compose, a, e or a-acute by typing
compose, a, apostrophe (kindof it turns the next key you type into a
dead key). It's a real shame it's not available by default on any
keyboards/operating system's except Sun's.

--
Tristan.

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