[ale] 2nd try. First never made it. Looking for a simple method to generate Spanish language characters.

[james.sumners at gmail.com (James Sumners)]

I have to run out the door to catch a plane right now or I would
research it more. But if I remember correctly, you want to map a meta
key and use it like a shift key. I think Meta + u will give you an
umlat over the next character (etc.).

xmodmap -e "keysym Alt_L = Meta_L Alt_L"

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> I need to generate a few documents in Spanish and am trying to figure
> out how to generate the accented characters and the e?e character
> without cutting and pasting.  It would be nice to have popup window for
> some app like OpenOffice that I could just mouse click without going
> through multiple keystrokes or window clicks to access.  Something that
> might stay on top, out of the way.   Barring that, perhaps something
> that would help me reconfigure the keyboard (easily) to send the
> accented characters with an ALT-<letter> or something similar.
> I could always write them out longhand, but then I'd really like for
> someone to be able to read them and that wouldn't happen considering my
> handwriting.  :)
>
> Any help would be appreciated.  Barring that, is there a Spanish speaker
> with a decent keyboard listening that would do some translations?  I
> sponsor some kids in Latin America and if I send them letters in
> English, they have to pay for a translator.
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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