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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
- Message-ID: <93010714502900031@stefan.spn.com>
- From: stefan@stefan.spn.com
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 14:50:29 +0100
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- To: rowley@theporch.raider.net
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for
- Skt.
-
- > > 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.
- >
- > jmr
-
- Not quite. Only a few combinations work. Example: try to put a ^ over a w
- (needed in Wales, UK, if I remember correctly). It won't work.
-
- > Correction> actually, it's not the operating system, it's built into most
-
- > well-behaved fonts. But it's been there all along.
-
- That's exactly the reason why. Such "uncommon" cominations are not part of
- the 256 standard signs of a PostScript font.
-
- Stefan
-