Re: [PLUG] Thunderbird questions

[Alan McConnell <alan@his.com>]

This will be some comments on Mr Bennetch's post.  He wrote:

Fred???s been doing great answering your questions, and in fact has answered
+this one as well but I wanted to emphasize what he said. How you enter 
text is
+dependent on your operating system, not the specific operating system.

        This seems to be so: but in Linux, at any rate there are tons 
of methods.

        I mention two:  in emacs there is a complicated select method 
which, after you

        have set the modes correctly will enable you to type 'schCtr-x 
8 " on' and get schön.

        And in TeX the method is quite different.

+Sometimes that means it???s easier to do a web search for the character you
+need and copy-paste it in to your document.

           <G> and <sob>  I'm afraid this may be so with TB.  Very 
strange to find an editor

           which allows bold-face and underlining and wild colors, but 
provides no method for

           writing cedillas, umlauts, and circumflexes.


  Other times you can
+directly enter the literal \337 through your operating system, which 
seems to
+me to be the preferred method in moat cases.

        If I understand this correctly, I have to say this is 
definitely not true of Linux.  Heck, after

        Linux starts, it will, usually automatically, call upon some 
variety of windowing system, or

        desktop environment,  and then one has a huge variety of 
terminals.  As I wrote above,

        I am familiar with two ways of putting in diacritical marks in 
Linux(the only OS I know):

        using emacs, an editor I've used for thirty years, and with 
TeX, which I've used almost

        that long.   (I suppose I should check how it is done with vi<G>)

This is easiest if you have a
+keyboard supporting those characters directly, but can be done even with a
+standard keyboard. In olden times (like 5-10 years ago), I couldn???t use
+characters like \351 or ??? and needed to work around it, but now I can 
spell
+my friend???s names correctly in email because the available character sets
+support those expanded characters (even if getting my keyboard to reproduce
+them is sometimes a struggle).

        <G> I gather you don't use TB.

I think the question: does TB have a native method of putting 
diacritical marks in has

been pretty much settled in the negative.  Maybe the TB developers will 
have improved

their editor by version 65.


So, still sticking with the editor(I have other questions!), can someone 
help with the

double-spacing problem?

As always, thanks for the (attempted) help!

Alan


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