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I wrote:
>> Related question: in which word processors is it possible to combine
>> _arbitrary_ letters with _arbitrary_ accents?

rowley@theporch.raider.net (Michael Rowland) writes:
>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.

Interesting.  So, to put a tilde accent on a capital E, I'll have to
type Option-n Shift-e, right?  (Try it, you will see that it won't
work...)

Freek
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