Recent weeks I was using my keyboard with Turkish language.
I would like to write " when I clicked the top left button, under the escape key. I don't want to write < character.
How to solve it?
You would have to have a way of changing the keyboard bindings. This might be possible depending ont he manufacturer.
Other options would be to create a short cut for the symbol you want. There are three double quoates I know of and if this is for coding you will want to make sure to pick the right one. But say you want the straight double quotes, then you can create a short cut that writes out the symbol.
Alternatively you can you can use the Alt codes tp produce it. Like Alt 0148 for "
I have solved the problem. I changed my keyboard type without knowing it. So corrected it on System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Change Keyboard Type.
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I am german but switched to US layout for coding. I got myself new keycaps and will stay with them forever.
Still, sometimes i wish to enter german symbols. Ä,Ö,Ü being examples thereof.
I know there is the option to Switch layouts (Super Space) for entering one character or compose key.
But I'd prefer to be able to use just a combination i can specify by myself.
I have an "Alt Gr" Key right of my spacebar. I could imagine using it + some key to get another symbol. Alt Gr + U = Ü for example.
Like this, i could also add other symbols i need from time to time, especially mathematical symbols or greek letters.
Is there any tool that can do this? Best would be one that is available for Windows and Linux.
Many thanks in advance.
I've been looking for the answer for quite some time now. This is a project I have but I can't manage to find a way to do it. The main idea would be to plug an additional keyboard on my computer that write multiple letters by hitting only one key. For example, instead of writing down a (when I hit the a key), it would write \textbf{ (for example).
I already manage to find the keyboard layout file under Linux and to switch the a and b keys, but I cannot find a way to print multiple characters.
I know it exist editors (like Texmaker or Kile) that have auto-completion, but I'm most of the time working in project in groups and therefore we use writelatex.com which does not propose auto-completion in it's free user pack ! Besides, I'm doing that for my personal interest.
Thanks a lot.
Have a look at autokey. It can assign phrases to hotkeys. It requires X11.
Another option might be to use a powerful text editor like vim or emacs which both have features like this, and then copy/paste the text into writelatex.com.
Some browsers have add-ons that allow you to edit the contents of a text field on a web page with a chosen text editor.
Edit: In Xorg you can use the X KeyBoard extension to e.g. change the meaning of individual keys. While you can configure the keyboard to generate (multibyte) unicode characters, you cannot assign arbitraty character strings to one key, to the best of my knowledge.
It is possible, but I don't know how is it done.
Use the Windows Charmap.exe applet. In the Font combobox select a font that has a lot of glyphs, Arial Unicode MS is a very good choice. Tick the Advanced view checkbox and type "super" in the Search box. The grid will show all superscript glyphs, select and copy from that and paste into your source code.
Or copy/paste one of these: ¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹⁰
Subscript characters: ₀₁₂₃₄₅₆₇₈₉
Adding more details to complement #HansPassant's answer. Other frequently used sets which can be used as is by copy/paste:
Superscript small case letters: ᵃᵇᶜᵈᵉᶠᵍʰⁱʲᵏˡᵐⁿᵒᵖʳˢᵗᵘᵛʷˣʸᶻ
Subscript small case letters: ₐ ₑ ₕ ᵢ ⱼ ₖ ₗ ₘ ₙ ₒ ₚ ᵣ ₛ ₜ ᵤ ᵥ ₓ
If you're wondering why few letters are missing in above series then please read below posts:
Where are the other letters in this Unicode block?
Why does the unicode Superscripts and Subscripts block not contain simple sequences of all letters?
Why is there no character for "superscript q" in Unicode?
Since there is a tag visual-studio-2012, I assume you are running Windows. There is a great opensource program called WinCompose, which allows to use easy-to-remember and intuitive shortcuts for a huge amount of Unicode symbols, including numerical super- and subscripts. Every shortcut is invoked via a Meta key (e.g. Right Alt), for example:
Meta + ^ + 1 gives ¹;
Meta + _ + 9 gives ₉.
WinCompose also supports search, can be run in background, and eliminates tedious procedure of calling Character Map with subsequent copy-pasting or remembering the Unicode charsets (but the latter are also listed):
P. S. I'm not affiliated with this software by any means. Just a happy user.
One more way for WPF users,
<TextBlock >
<Run>x</Run>
<Run FontSize="8" BaselineAlignment="TextTop" >2</Run>
</TextBlock>
Change BaselineAlignment to TextBottom if you want to use as subscript.
In VsCode download the extension "Fast Unicode Math Characters".
The hotkeys for ₂ is \_2.
The hotkeys for ² is \^2.
Looks like there are some simple tags that you can use to make any text superscript/subscript. The superscript tag is <sup> and the subscript tag is <sub>.
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_sup.asp
use (Ctrl + Shift + P) command to apply superscript and subscript in Visual Studio.
This is how usually I tend to do it on Mac.
In the VS code, hit (Control + Command + Space) to bring up the Character selector and search for 'superscript' in the search box.
Click on required superscript and add it. And here is the result. Screenshot are from the VS code only.
This approach should work across most of the apps in the Mac. Tested in MacOS 12.5. (Monterey)
There are several solutions. Personally, I simply formaat the label text in Word, use a screen capture and save it as an image that I use with a label.
I just started programming J. Now I want to type
text=: 'hello world'
text
in the gtk terminal, which when run should display:
hello world
But when I type the single quote character it renders as ´, not as ' in the gtk terminal. And then when I run the program the interpreter says "spelling error".
Now the only way I can put a ' in the terminal is by typing it in notepad and pasting it in the gtk terminal. I find that cumbersome.
Now my question is:
Is there an easier way to type a ' in the gtk terminal?
I have Windows 7 64 bits version, also 64 bits version of J, version j64-701.
I just encountered this problem as well, and it appears that this is caused by a keyboard setting (controlling whether quotes appear directly or can be used to make é, ë and the like).
This setting can be changed in almost all Windows applications by pressing Left Alt + Shift. After using this combination, the single quotes appeared correctly for me.
HTH.
I've faced exactly the same problem and I found out that it happens in every software that uses GTK+ (Pidgin, GIMP, Geany, etc), if you have set your keyboard to English-International, when you press the single quote(')/double quote(") key, what you get is acute accent(´)/diacritic(¨).
The best solution to me was, adding the English-US keyboard to the list of available keyboards in Windows (yes, this solution is for windows but you can easily do something similar in any SO you are facing the same problem).
And when I want to input an [ ' ], I just press the default combination LEFT CONTROL + SHIFT to toggle between keyboards.
Long shot, but I'm guessing it's a keyboard thing. My French keyboard has a funky layout, and yours (I'm guessing Dutch?) might have one too. I guess I'm lucky, under Vista 64, I get single quotes, with the right key.
I think it's a bug of the specific version of J. I will ask this question to the support of the producers of J.
I can't use any shortcut that has meta-shift (alt and shift) in it because ubuntu will treat it as "change keyboard layout" shortcut (I map it to alt-shift since I use the same shortcut in windows) as soon as I press m-s. In windows change keyboard layout shortcut doesn't register until you release the key so any shortcut with m-s is usable in windows.
Is there any work-around without changing shortcut or meta key ? I kinda used to it.
Change the Ubuntu change-keyboard-layout shortcut, to something else.
Or use Esc as Meta
Nothing easy that I know of.
You can manually bind everything that's M-S-??? to C-M-S-??? in your .emacs or at least all of the ones that you use...
Or you can just change the short-cut... how often do you change the keyboard layout? (I use dvorak, and qwerty, but I've never needed a shortcut for it, I just use the button...)
I have tried different things, and in my opinion it is best to change the layout shortcut to something else. The power of emacs is all in its shortcuts that are available right there under your fingers. If you move the M key away and make it harder to reach, it will most surely have a negative impact on your editing speed.
Right now I'm trying to get used to switching layouts with the right Alt key. I almost never use it for anything, so missing it won't be a problem. And from my experience teaching yourself to switch layouts with another combination is a matter of several days.
P.S. Also it pays to use Caps-Lock as an additional Ctrl key, it helps tremendously!