[XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort
Philipp Stephani
st_philipp at yahoo.de
Mon Sep 27 17:04:01 CEST 2010
----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----
> Von: Axel Kielhorn <A.Kielhorn at web.de>
> An: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms <xetex at tug.org>
> Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 16:46:00 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX in lshort
>
>
> Am 26.09.2010 um 18:10 schrieb Peter Dyballa:
>
> >
> > Am 26.09.2010 um 15:56 schrieb Axel Kielhorn:
> >
> >> I have to disagree, Vim and emacs (or should that be Emacs?) are available
>on Windows as well. (Maybe not used that often.)
> >
> > It's actually GNU Emacs and XEmacs. There are also specialised variants,
>based on GNU Emacs, like NTEmacs, Carbon Emacs, "NS or Cocoa Emacs", "AppKit
>Emacs", Emacs.app,...
>
> Not "One Emacs to rule them all!"?
It's not that bad. Carbon Emacs, Cocoa Emacs and Emacs.app (probably the others
as well) are obsolete since GNU Emacs started to provide native Mac support.
Aquamacs is pretty popular, though (like mvim).
>
> > No, it's more than that. Compose o / will produce ø, compose L / will
>produce Ł, compose Y = gives ¥, compose o c will give ©, and many, many more
>combinations! -> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose-Taste
>
>
> This isn't good news:
> <quote>
> The compose key is known as "Multi_key" in the X Window System. In XFree86 and
>X.Org Server, many keyboard layouts have a variant that maps Multi_key to some
>key, usually (on PC keyboards) to either of the Windows keys (most often the
>Menu key, since "Start" is already used to open the start menu), or sometimes
>Shift + AltGr[1] or Shift + Right-Ctrl. It can also be specified in XkbOptions
>(for example, "compose:rwin"). Multi_key can also be assigned with the
>xmodmap(1) utility
> </quote>
>
> In short:
> Everyone is doing it differently.
And many Linux users aren't aware of the Compse key; I think it is not mapped to
any of the special keys in default Ubuntu installations. Again, all this
shouldn't be explained in lshort.pdf unless you are planning to write dozens of
pages about Unicode input methods.
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