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Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by Xozz
How can I produce
supertext
in Linux? edit: The name of this topic should be " produce
supertext
" in stead of " use
supertext
" but I think you all get t he point
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by rproffitt
I don't get the point. While I know of super and sub-script, I googled
SUPERTEXT
and well, what is it?
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by rproffitt
… time. The accents you ask about have never been called
SUPERTEXT
by anyone but hey, you clarified. To get to other…
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by Xozz
What I mean is accents. Like: à, è, ù
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by Xozz
I have LibreOffice installed. I see that you can select Special Characters. That's a way to produce characters with accents. But isn't there a way to get to those characters in the whole system? Like in Windows: typing ' and then e does the trick.
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by rproffitt
Even in Windows you can't do this in all apps and the system. For now because "how we got here" many apps such as plain text editors, filenames and more may be limited to ASCII (8 bit.) If some app does allow UNICODE then there are articles/tutorials for you: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=type+unicode+in+linux+tutorial
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by Xozz
I think I know enough for now.
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by rproffitt
I left out one major character encoding method in computing history. It is called by the acronym EBCDIC. It was at first a 6 bit system and later 8 bits. No accents there.
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by Xozz
What I was aiming for is the Windows-way of bringing forth characters with accents. Now that I got to know the way of using UNICODE my need is a little bit decreased. Still, I someone knows how to get the Windows-way integrated in Linux I would be very happy! :-)
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by rproffitt
1. Try the Compose key method. Noted at https://askubuntu.com/questions/358/how-can-i-type-accented-characters-like-ë 2. Use an on-screen keyboard. Since there are many "Windows" ways, I can't guess the method you wish. https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/keyboard-osk.html.en Finally the answer is no. Windows, Linux and …
Re: Use supertext in Linux
Hardware and Software
Linux and Unix
3 Years Ago
by Xozz
Thanks. That's the answer I was waiting for.
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