Hello Bob, I use a similar approach to that of Jon Inggs, but slightly different.The Finnish/Swedish keyboard has all the required accents, but they are in awkward places. Therefore, I have been using a US keyboard for some time to write Finnish (which has umlauts: ä, ö) and French (I am a Romance language major). I would suggest putting accents on the Unshift level whenever possible. This makes input much smoother. I have the following assignments:
/ = S1 = Accute accent 53=s1 Ctrl-/ = / = slash \ = S2 = Grave accent 43=s2 Ctrl-\ = \ = backslash [ = S4 = Circumflex 26=s4 Ctrl-[ = [ (bracket)Alternatively, you could use ^ (= Shift-6), but it is a shifted key which is a complication!
] = s3 = Umlaut, tréma 27=s3 Ctrl-] = ] (bracket)Alternatively, you could use " (= Shift-'), but it is a shifted key which is a complication!
C-cédille: Ctrl-c = ç Ctrl: 46=ç Shift-ctrl-C = ’ Shift-ctrl: 46=’These assignments work in Xy3 and Xy4. Xy4 has supplemental floating accents for cedilla, etc. I have stickers to show any additions to the normal keyboard, and I have duplicated the assignments on the KAPS and KAPS+SHIFT levels. When not in XyWrite, I use Allchars in *nix compose mode: Ctrl-right+\+a = à.
Hope this helps a bit. In the end, this is a matter of personal preference. Best regards, Kari Eveli LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland) lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx *** Lexitec Online *** Lexitec in English: https://www.lexitec.fi/english.html Lexitec English and Finnish dictionaries: https://sk.lexitec.fi/en/ Home page in Finnish: https://www.lexitec.fi/