Re: Accents with frescobaldi (OT?)

[Wilbert Berendsen]

Op Fri, 2 May 2014 09:53:07 +0200
Francisco Vila <address@hidden> schreef:

> 2014-05-01 21:10 GMT+02:00 Francois Planiol <address@hidden>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an annoying issue with frescobaldi.
> > To get accented wovels (or whatever accented, cedilled etc) you
> > press first the accent then the wovel and the result is the
> > accented wovel. But i my configuration:
> > - typing accented letters works fine, only in a new file without any
> > flavour of markup (-language).
> > - typíng them outside of any context rarely works
> > - typing them inside of any context (markup, score, relative, lyrics
> > etc) also sometimes work. Pressing the accent sets it immediately,
> > doesnt wait for wovel
> >
> > How do I get consistently the "normal" use of accented wovels?
> 
> I once asked the same
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/frescobaldi/QswzkvR-f7c and
> now I can update the report a bit.
> 
> - It's not your fault: all other programs behave well and your
> keyboard is properly configured. Only Frescobaldi shows the issue.
> - Click the PDF music preview once, then click the text editing area
> once, then try typing an accented character, it works once, then try
> typing another one, it'll fail. In another words, it works first time
> only after clicking in the edit area.
> - Disabling the predictive auto-complete setting makes dead keys work.
> You can still have auto-completing suggestions on demand, by pressing
> ctrl+space.
> 
> My current approach is leaving auto-complete on for normal music
> coding and comments in English: no accents. Then, for comments and
> lyrics in Spanish I change to suggestions on demand and accents can be
> typed normally.
> 
> The bug comes undoubtedly from a conflict between auto-complete
> feature and dead keys. HTH,

Thanks for reporting, added to the tracker as
https://github.com/wbsoft/frescobaldi/issues/429



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