On Thu, 2022-05-12 at 14:05 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
You define some key to be your compose key (e.g. the right logo
key),
then you tap it and two character keys, one after another, to compose
a
character out of symbols that look like what you want to achieve (or
are otherwise memorable as hotkeys).
compose, letter e, apostrophe, gives me é
compose, letter e, carat symbol (shift+6 on my keyboard), gives me ê
compose, letter c, letter o, gives me ǒ
compose, leeter o, letter c, gives me ©
compose, letter o, letter o, gives me the degree symbol °
compose, letter a, letter e, gives me the æ ligature
I type quite a lot in Spanish, so I use dead keys for accents, thus:
' a -> á
' e -> é
and so on. For other characters such as ¿ or ¡ I use a combo (Shift-
AltGr-_ and Shift-AltGr-! respectively). I also defined the Scroll Lock
on my keyboard to switch the dead keys on or off, which means I
constantly forget which mode I'm in, but you can't have everything.
poc