Writing Umlauts in Texmaker Without Repeating Letters

Question

I am new to LateX and have the following problem: I need to write a few larger documents in German using latex. That's why I need a lot of umlauts, too. When I hold a key (o, e.g.) it repeats it at least once (result: oo) and after choosing the right accent it writes the number (result: oo2) and at last the correct umlaut (oo2ö).

So all I want is an ö and the shortest I get is oo2ö, any ideas how to solve this problem? Copy and Pasting the umlauts or deleting the unnecessary letters are no options, way too slow.

I am using:

MacOS
US-keyboard layout
MacTeX
Texmaker

I tried turning off the key repeat in MacOS preferences, but that doesn't work. Changing the key repeat speed makes a difference, however. At the slowest option I get the described result, at the fastest option I get like (ooooooooooooooo2ö).

Yes, but i am used to the us layout. Looking for an other solution. — latexo2, Dec 16 '21 at 13:13
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/381223/how-to-invoke-character-selection-instead-instead-of-key-repeat seems related. — Marijn, Dec 16 '21 at 17:04
I think pressing Alt+U and then o (or O, u, U, a, A) should be the most feasable way. — Jasper Habicht, Dec 17 '21 at 15:46
Personally, I'd try to make do without dead keys. Just redefine RALT-a, -o, -u und -s. SHIFT-RALT-u or similar would then produce uppercase umlauts. — Ingmar, Dec 17 '21 at 17:15
alt-u then a vowel will give an umlaut/diaresis in the US english keyboard. I personally use ABC-extended which gives a wider range of extended latin modifiers, but that's partly because I often need to type things like Hradčany or Łódż and I'm not fond of how many central European keyboards want to correct quotes to „…“ rather than “…” — Don Hosek, Jan 16 '22 at 17:46
Special case of Good keyboard layouts for typing (La)TeX - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange. — user202729, Jun 16 '22 at 06:22
I’m voting to close this question because the question is about how to input characters, which depends on the OS and the keyboard layout, but has nothing to do with TeX and friends. — egreg, Jun 16 '22 at 10:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 16 '22 at 18:33

You can use the babel package, which changes quotation marks and vocals to umlaut.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman,german]{babel} 
\begin{document}
Abc"odef"Aghi"u
\end{document}

Later you replace all these with the actual letter. But until finalization, you can just write it all down without worrying too much.

Sebastian Molina · Answer 2 · 2021-12-17T15:40:23.603

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An option could be use the replace option in Texmaker, and regex search for oo2ö with the query [o]*2ö, and then replacing it with ö, by activating the Regular Expression search option.

edited Dec 17 '21 at 15:40

answered Dec 17 '21 at 15:02

Sebastian Molina

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As it’s currently written, your answer is unclear. Please [edit] to add additional details that will help others understand how this addresses the question asked. You can find more information on how to write good answers in the help center. – Community Dec 17 '21 at 15:16
(You misunderstood the OP, the "oo2" part represents what the OP types instead of what gets typed out.) – user202729 Jun 16 '22 at 06:20

Writing Umlauts in Texmaker Without Repeating Letters

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