Re: [AUCTeX] Special characters in LaTeX and some Emacscommandsdon't work!

[gerald . jean]

Thanks again Joost,

this has been very instructive and it will save me a lot of frustrations.

Happy Holidays to all,

Gérald Jean
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Joost Kremers <address@hidden> a écrit sur 2008/12/19 10:26:59 :

> > > To the OP: you should certainly check out the Windows keyboard layout
> > > settings. The key combo that switches settings can be set by the
user.
> > > There are a bunch of possible options here, such as shift-alt (which
IIUC
> > > is the default one) or shift-ctrl, which are needed in Emacs to
access
> > > certain shortcuts, e.g., M-% or M-$. Using any of those functions
will
> > > switch the layout.
> > Actually on my machine shift-alt seems to switch the keyboard settings.
No
> > wonder it happened so often, every time one wants to go to the end of a
> > buffer he needs to use that combo with the ">" key, if the timing of
> > pressing the three keys is not as it should then the keyboard get
switched!
>
> Indeed! (Though I personally still use the Home and End keys to do that,
> but well... ;-)
>
> > I have administrative rights on my machine but when I go to <start>
--->
> > <parameters settings> ---> <configuration board> ---> <keyboard> (note
that
> > I am translating these from French -- hence it may not be the exact
words
> > in English), all I can do here is to alter "repetition speed", update
the
> > driver and a few other little things NOT related to the keyboard
settings,
> > am I looking at the right place?
>
> I don't think so, no. I don't have Windows (anymore, thank $DEITY), but
> IIRC you need to look under something like Internationalisation. Wait a
> sec, let me google an image of the XP control panel...
>
> Ok, so I think it's called "Regional and Language Settings" in the
English
> version.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Joost Kremers, PhD
> University of Frankfurt
> Institute for Cognitive Linguistics
> Grüneburgplatz 1
> 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany



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