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- From: rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland)
- Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
- Sender: bbs@theporch.raider.net (Waffle BBS login)
- Message-ID: <awFZwB11w165w@theporch.raider.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:12:57 GMT
- References: <freek.726078950@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
- Organization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.
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- > Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
- > _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?
- >
-
- ANY word processor can do it on the Mac... it's built into the operating
- system. Using KeyCaps find out the keyboard locations of the diacritical
- you want; they are Option-key strokes. For instance, the umlaut is
- Option-U; the tilde is Option-N, other accents are located as Option keys
- hidden behind other vowels... circumflex is Option-I, etc. These are
- "dead-key" combinations...they take two keystrokes. Hold down the Option
- key and strike a lowercase u... at first nothing will happen...THEN
- strike the vowel you want to put the umlaut over, and it will show up
- onscreen complete with diacritical.
-
- Correction> actually, it's not the operating system, it's built into most
- well-behaved fonts. But it's been there all along.
-
- jmr
-
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- rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland)
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