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Article #11404Re: Font question. Need very weird accents and diactritics for Skt.
From: Michael Rowland
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:12
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:12
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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 -- rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland) theporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!knuth.mtsu.edu!raider!theporch!rowley 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. Lines: 22