Re: Foreign characters in English text

[Peter Evans peterev@xxxxxxxx]

At 11:27 PM 3/16/00 -0000, you wrote:

>The most used French characters I added to my
>LT keyboard. . . . Does anybody have a quick
>way of inserting these characters?

I think of them not as characters but as diacritic+character combinations.
Thus I don't have to worry about e-acute, e-grave, e-circumflex,
i-circumflex, etc. etc. but instead acute, grave, circumflex, and dieresis
(umlaut) -- thereby reducing the number considerably. ^ is defined as
"stick a circumflex on the next character that I enter", ` as the same for
grave, Ctrl-' as the same for acute, Ctrl-" as the same for dieresis. Thus
in my keyboard file for example:

TABLE=SHIFT
;;;7=^
7=S4

I'm using Xy4, but I'm virtually certain that this part of my keyboard file
is unchanged from the days when I used it for Xy3.

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Peter Evans