Aloha everyone, Perhaps one of the experts here might be able to save me a lot of time. I've been writing a novel in French (with a US keyboard) and doing the accents is making this a frustrating experience on stock XY4. I'm using the supplied method of Insert menu - Accent - (select accent). For one thing the selection is incomplete (no cédille), but overwhelmingly, it's just so slow. I would think there is some sort of startup code I could add to make this work, probably something that already exists. If someone could point me in the right direction I'd be very appreciative. Mahalo in advance, -- Bob Newell Honolulu, Hawai`i - Via GNU/Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB