- From: Ken Feyl <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Cc: address@hidden
- Subject: keyboard prob fixed...
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 15:53:22 -0800 (PST)
Dear David, you are the man for giving me such a detailed reply. Your
suggestion regarding the font problem, however, did not fix my weird
behavior, even after I re-installed tetex and texmacs several times.
Ultimately, I discovered from the Console, the problem roots to TeXmacs'
failure to find the font cmsy10. Then, a friendly suggestion from a fellow
user suggested that my ~/.TeXmacs directory may be the source of the problem.
And whaddya know? Nothing, nothing at all in the ~/.TeXmacs/fonts directory.
Just an empty directory structure. Quite suspicious. So, again on my
comrade's suggestion, I renamed my whole .TeXmacs directory, to .foolish,
rebooted TeXmacs and presto! When I tested a subscripted infinity this time,
it unpacked some font package and gave me an infinity.
This was rather weird. But, in summary: if you get this problem, wipe out
your ~/.TeXmacs directory.
More news soon on the Alt-Meta situation. I will try your suggestions. BTW,
to explain it a little more clearly, I did have my own .xmodmap with the
aforementioned modifications, and they show when I launch OroborOSX, get an
xterm and run xev. However, when I underwent the below procedure, it would
forget my settings on every launch.
1) Boot TeXmacs
2) Hit $ to go into formula mode and then alt-f. Just the letter f.
3) Select Preferences-Keyboard-Alt-map to A modifier.
4) Hit alt-f. A fraction.
5) Quit TeXmacs and reboot.
6) Step 2 again. Still the letter f. Every time I run TeXmacs, I need to
repeat step 3.
But I will try some of your alternative suggestions now, and let you know how
it goes. But this is hopefully a more precise explanation of the observed
behavior.
Ken
--- address@hidden wrote:
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 10:44:33PM -0800, Ken Feyl wrote:
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> Dear List, I've used TeXmacs succesfully for a long time... until
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> today. Suddenly, I'm getting some weird behavior with the infinity
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> shortcut key and the minus ("-") sign. Whenever I'm in a superscript
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> in $ formula mode, I get a capital gamma whenever I type the minus
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> sign and the letters "ffi" whenever I type @ as the first in
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> infinity's @@ shortcut. This is driving me insane!
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>
Generally, these problems seem due to a broken font system (at least
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according to the answers Joris have be giving on the mailing lists for
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similar problems). I cannot say more, but your additional message
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seems to point in that direction too.
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>
I suggest you make a clean intallation of teTeX.
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>
> I had to remap a few keys with xev since my Powerbook has a reduced
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> keyboard. I mapped the apple key to meta and the option keys to alt
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> and the F7 key to F5 (so I can hit the integral shortcut). But no
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> matter how many times I tell the darn thing to use the Alt-key for
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> the A modifier, Meta for the M-modifier it never recognizes in a
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> given TeXmacs session until I explicitly choose those menu options!
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> Then it forgets everything the next time I run it, even though I
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> still get the little dot next to "Map to A Modifier." Still, I must
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> actually click on it first. Phooey! Any way I can set the defaults
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> once and for all?
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>
I understand your are frustrated, but it would be more helpful if you
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give a clearer description of your problem: a procedure to describe
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the problem with the output of xmodmap at the key points and how the
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observed behaviour is different from the expected behaviour.
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>
Actually, TeXmacs uses xmodmap to remap keys to modifiers. Internally
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it only maps ModN to a given symbolic modifier (A, M, H etc.). Also
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there is some confusion with the AltGr key because it should not
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switch key-plane when used as Alt modifier. TeXmacs does its best
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handling the mess of Xlib keyboards events, but that is not yet
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optimal.
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>
On my iBook, my ~/.xsession files does:
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xmodmap $HOME/meta.mod
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startkde || xterm
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And $HOME/meta.mod contains:
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keycode 64 = Alt_L
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keycode 115 = Meta_L
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clear mod2
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clear mod4
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add mod2 = Alt_L
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add mod4 = Meta_L
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In short, that maps the "alt" key to mod2 (which is standard for Alt)
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and the "apple" key to mod4 (which is standard for Meta).
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>
If I remember well, by default the Alt key is mapped to Mode_Switch
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(at least that is that way on XDarwin). So I also use another file
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$HOME/alt-gr.mod to get my alt-gr key back:
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remove mod3 = Mode_switch
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keysym KP_Enter = Mode_switch
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add mod3 = Mode_switch
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That remaps AltGr to the iBook keypad-enter key (which I do not use).
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Hope this helps.
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--
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David Allouche | GNU TeXmacs -- Writing is a pleasure
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Free software engineer | http://www.texmacs.org
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http://ddaa.net | http://alqua.com/tmresources
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address@hidden | address@hidden
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TeXmacs is NOT a LaTeX front-end and is unrelated to emacs.
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