How to Get Accents and Symbols
You can use the Compose Character command to create
any of a wide variety of foreign characters (for example, the upside
down question mark used in Spanish).
To do this, you identify a single foreign character by specifying a
two-character keyboard string. For example, the letter
n with a ~ over it (common in
Spanish) is specified to ez as the letter n and the
keyboard tilde character, ~. There are two ways to
supply the two-character strings to Compose Character
to place foreign characters in an ez document:
- If you type C-x x (i.e., type x
while pressing down the Ctrl key, then type
x without holding down any other key), you will be
prompted for an initial character. Once you type a character, you
will be shown a list of the characters available with the prefix
character you typed.
- If you type C-x v, you will be prompted for a
character, and the text caret will appear in the message line. In
this mode, you can get a listing of everything your entry so far can
generate by typing a question mark (?). If you
haven't entered anything yet when you type ?, you
will be given a list of all the foreign characters that are available
to you.
In a similar fashion, to insert greek characters, position the cursor
where you want the character to be inserted, then type
control-x v
followed by a ?. Then, after a second or two, a list
of all possible characters will appear. Search through that list
until you find what you want. To enter the character, just type the
two letters that correspond to the one you want.