>>23
In case it helps, the key names in the angle brackets are documented in /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h. If you need more details, well, look at the global table. It's in the same format.
I didn't know about the user-local compose table either until I stumbled upon it during some heavy googling this morning.
>>22
I'm working on it, actually. Digging through the source at the moment. Then I need to learn troff...