Typing Special Characters (Intuitive Special Character Entry)
The Macintosh has had a fairly intuitive method for entering special characters from the keyboard that I'm surprised isn't available on Linux and Windows. (I first used it in Macintosh System 6.0.7 about 20 years ago.) If you know of a tool that works like this or is similarly intuitive for Windows or Linux, please let me know because I will
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http://www.deltatranslator.com/accent.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306560
Keyboard viewer (requires IE): http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/kbdusx.htm
I don't know how to do many of the characters in the "typographic" section, though.
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I won't make you go reading about XKB, but linux is actually much more flexible than windows (and probably os x too) when it comes to customizing your keyboard layout (can you switch your caps lock and backspace keys? :)).
Here's a xmodmap file to enable the characters above on whichever keyboard layout you're using. Should work out of the box, unless you are on the regular US qwerty layout, in which case you have to uncomment the last line (remove the '!') to make AltGr work.
Just save the file wherever you want and run xmodmap xmodmap.zanedp and try it out. To make it run every time you should probably save it as ~/.xmodmap and have your WM autorun xmodmap ~/.xmodmap (the way to do it will vary according to what WM and what login manager you use). And if you want to make it available system-wide (i.e. to all users) then we have to make you a proper xkb file you can install in /usr/share/X11/xkb ( ... )
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