latin 1, xfig?

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 1 18:53:36 UTC 2003


Hi,

I just tried this, I also have xfig 3.2pl2 and the function does not work.
I am unable to insert any characters. I tried to change fonts and several
other settings. Is there a howto on how to do this right ?

thanks,

Peter

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, David Tilbrook wrote:

> Previously I wrote ...
>
> David Tilbrook wrote:
> >
> > xfig has support for the Latin-1 characters in that one
> > can use the Atl key followed by a two letter encoding to
> > yield characters in the non-ascii range.  For example
> > Alt-SO yields § (the section sign).
> >
> > Q: Does anyone know of other programs that use the same
> >    encoding?  Is it some sort of standard?
> >
> > Q: Does anyone know the xfig encoding for the acute accent
> >    ´ decimal 180, octal 264?  I've been able to map 0241
> >    through 0376, but 0264 eludes me.
> >
> > -- david
>
> The answer is that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xfig/CompKeyDB
> contains the mapping so it's not clear than any other
> program uses it.
>
> The spacing acute (180) is inserted using Alt-\\ (really).
> The spacing cedilla (184) was missing from the table
> so it's been added as Alt-,,.
>
> -- david
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