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[lo2]

Hi there

I have been using LaTeX for a while, there is however one thing that bothers me. That is the fact that you have to use "Alt Gr" all the time for making "\" "{ }" and other symbols. So is there a way to deal with this problem?

Another thing is when I am using TeXnicCenter, when I for instance write \frac{}{}. Then when I am in the middle of typing that, a box appears with "\frac{}{}", is there a key I can press so that the program will automatically finish the command I am writing?

I hope you understand my questions, if not please tell and I will elaborate.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi lo2,

is there a key I can press so that the program will automatically finish the command I am writing?

try Ctrl (Strg) together with the space key.

Stefan

[frabjous]

What kind of keyboard are you using that you need Alt Gr to get "\" "{" or "}" -- those are keys on my keyboard anyway.

[localghost]

What kind of keyboard are you using that you need Alt Gr to get "\" "{" or "}" -- those are keys on my keyboard anyway.

It might be a QWERTZ keyboard as used here in Germany. We need to use »Alt Gr« to access the backslash and the curly braces (and the brackets as well). I got used to it with time. But I agree with the OP that this slows down the writing process. The TeX developers simply didn't take into account that there might exist other keyboard layouts. I guess where you have these characters on your keyboard (left from »Enter«), we have our umlauts »ä«, »ö« and »ü«. Similar considerations will apply to other European languages.


Thorsten

[frabjous]

Might AutoHotKey or similar software provide the means for faster insertion of such characters?