Custom .XCompose

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 22:39 -0800, Bob wrote:
> It is a bit of a pain to use on a laptop that does not have a
> separate numeric keypad.  You need to turn on NumLock.
> [...]
> But as I mentioned in anather post it does not seem to
> work using Ubuntu.

I use German a fair bit and have these notes on making some German
special characters:

1: Use the "Settings" tool, select "Text Entry" then "Keyboard options"
(it's a link at bottom right).

2: Click "Disabled" on the "Compose key" line. A list of possible
compose keys will drop down. Choose e.g. "Right Alt" - most of the
others are taken by something else. Then close the "Settings" applet.

3: To enter an Umlaut, press the compose key (that you chose in step
2), then double-quote, then the unmodified letter. For example, tap, in
order rightAlt, double-quote, "a" to get "ä" (Umlaut-a). For the
capitalised version, just type the capital letter instead.

4: For a sharp-S, use compose, s, "s" or compose, S, "S".

I only use Umlauts and sharp-S, but this link looks very useful for a
bunch of other special characters in various other languages as well.
And it definitely works at least for "å" and "Å" :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key#Common_compose_combinations

I've found that typing special characters this way becomes quite fast
with very little practice.
Regards, K.

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